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EFFICIENT EXPLOITATION OF GOLF TOURISM TO ATTRACT FOREIGN TOURISTS
Source: The People
Our country has about 20 golf courses already in operation, extending in all three regions of the country with all sorts of mountain terrain, midland and coastal dunes. With certain characteristics, are classified as golf tourism and sports attractions, attracting tourists with high spending, demand for natural direction, coherence and based on nature.
This is a form of tourism has been exploited by many countries effectively, take advantage of non-agricultural land resources, environmental protection, tourism landscape nhien.Khach Course (DLG) are international always willing to pay very high, averaging 3,000 to $ 5,000 for a trip. They also spend more and more, in the luxury hotel and bought souvenirs. Psychology of international golf tourists as well as golfers prefer to play at the golf course, many challenges. The movement of the golfer so popular that international airlines (including Vietnam Airlines) are published free of charge air to the golf bag.
The difficulty of the golf tourism in Vietnam is to promote, attract international visitors to travel and play golf, effectively exploiting the golf course infrastructure invested in the local savings agricultural land resources, environmental protection and seek to create more jobs for workers.
To get the brand and become a golf tourism destination in the region level, the experience that some golf courses are effective business in our country has provided a new perspective on the impact of the market promotion, advertising and propaganda to attract tourists and international golfers to Vietnam to participate in sports of golf tourism, especially in countries with high market-golf, paying special attention to near field as Korea, Japan, Taiwan (China), Xin-Singapore, Thailand, China and other key markets from North America and Europe. To achieve this, tourism businesses and the golf course today to find out, keep up the trend of international demands to be covered in advertising, inviting and Development implementation services and products associated tourist attractions, golf for guests. Firms must have the support and consensus of the leaders, especially of government and local people in planning the right direction, efficient utilization of agricultural land resources; application of technology advanced to protect and preserve the environment and water resources. Businesses should regularly reform and development services, create more jobs for local workers; not satisfied and always trying to improve the quality, continuous addition of new services; actively promoting image through trade fairs, exhibitions and advertising to expand relations with other units travel to tourists and golf packages with accommodation for several days.
Type of DLG is a new type but have the potential to attract international tourists to Vietnam, that if the extraction and utilization of investment and services. It will contribute positively to the reform towards improving the quality of visitors to Vietnam, increasing spending and stay, gradually increase their competitiveness with other countries on tourism development in the region and completion of the strategic objectives of our country's tourism industry. To accomplish these goals, DLG to affirm the role of its kind, which should review the applicable excise tax 20% expenses golf today. This comes from previous knowledge as golf is one sport luxury, a pastime reserved for the rich. By the integration period, the current international sports golf tourism has become a need, a kind of green tourism, nature-oriented. So, to be taxed to 30% (including 20% excise fee and 10% VAT) will make the price of golf in Vietnam is higher and push type DLG in our country at competitive disadvantage compared with the surrounding water. Also, do not apply high import duties on machinery, equipment for golf, but there should be incentives, even tax-free. The reason for this is that equipment can not be produced domestically, not imported. The tax reduction will create conditions for Vietnam golf more competitive advantage, increase the attractiveness of the service charges, and conditions improve service quality, attract international visitors to Vietnam golf and sightseeing, tourism. This was an opportunity to serve golfers in the country and young people can be exposed more with this type of sport, to meet growing demand in the country's economic development.
Another important attraction in the solution of international visitors to play golf in Vietnam is the business enterprise DLG need to link closely together and with the hotel facilities, travel companies; progress to organize golf tours in its own right. Vietnam is able to self-organization and cross-country tour DLG actually make enough power to do this. Currently a number of major international tour operators in our country is golf tour packages available which only design program at the request of the guests to play golf in Vietnam with the conditions of more than ten people. On the other hand, the tourism industry and businesses need to promote DLG held in many markets for Vietnam to become a world-class destination on the world map DLG. /.
