Dalat city needs to develop high quality tourism products when joining TPO. Photo: DOAN KIEN

TPO is a network of tourism cities in the Asia-Pacific region with 86 major cities and more than 45 members of the tourism industry of 10 countries and territories including Vietnam, Korea and Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Russia, the Philippines, Thailand, China and Taiwan, have the role of advertising and communication centers among member cities.

Currently, the cities of Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hai Phong, in which Ho Chi Minh City is the only representative of Vietnam are elected to the TPO Executive Committee.

In Dalat city, TPO organization has surveyed places, services, infrastructure for tourism, strengths of Da Lat tourism.

Mr. Kim Soo Il, Secretary General of TPO said that Dalat city has great potential for high quality tourism, ecotourism, security situation is also very secure. However, the image of promoting Dalat on the world tourism map is very faint. Localities need to further promote the issue of advertisement and communication to attract international tourists to Dalat.

Meanwhile, Mr. Ton Thien San, Chairman of Da Lat City People's Committee shared, after being eligible to become a member of TPO, Da Lat city can connect with member cities to support each other support tourism development. Maximizing the strength and advantages of each member.

Upon joining, Dalat will have conditions to promote tourism, agriculture, and strong products. Through this promotion channel, Dalat city will develop better quality tourism services and, in the general orientation, to develop high quality tourism, the tourist segment will be selective.

According to Dalat City People's Committee, in 2018, there were more than 700,000 international visitors coming to Da Lat, accounting for only 14.5% of the total number of visitors, the average stay was 2.4 days / person. This is a very modest number for Dalat city tourism compared to the available potential.

Source: baomoi.com