The People’s Committee of Cao Bang province and the Ministry of Construction on August 17 announced master and detailed plans for developing Ban Gioc waterfall tourist site.
The announcement aims to
call for investment from enterprises to turn Ban Gioc waterfall tourist site
into a key tourism site of the northern mountainous province and the nation,
contributing to boosting the development of the province and the region.
Under the master plan,
approved by the Prime Minister in April this year, the Ban Gioc waterfall
tourist site will cover 1,000ha while the central area of the site will cover
156.7ha.
Ban Gioc Waterfall
Facilities will be also built in the zone to serve tourism,
including hotels and service areas.
The tourist site is
expected to welcome approximately 750,000 visitors per year and have more than
1,000 rooms for tourists by 2020. By 2030, the tourist site is estimated to
receive 1.2 million visitors and have some 1,750 rooms for visitors.
The central area of the
Ban Gioc waterfall tourist site is set to have four areas including the Ban
Gioc waterfall landscape, the landscape along the Quay Son River, the
mountainous forestry landscape ecology and the agricultural landscape ecology.
Ban Gioc is in Dam Thuy
commune, Trung Khanh district, on the border with China’s Guangxi province. It
is
53 metreshigh and
300 metreswide and has three levels of smaller waterfalls.
The waterfall is the
fourth largest border waterfall in the world and was named one of the ten most
spectacular waterfalls in the world by travel site Touropia.
In 2016, the tourism site
welcomed more than 178,000 visitors.
Source: PANO
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