Da Lat (Lam Dong) welcomed more than 7 million visitors this year, up 340% over the same period in 2021.
Da Lat’s city centre in tourist season.
This information was announced by the Lam Dong Provincial People's Committee on November 22 during a conference to review the socio-economic situation in 2022 and deploy tasks and solutions in 2023.
Accordingly, there have been 150,000 international visitors, reaching 100% of the set plan, an increase of 700% compared to 2021. Visitors registered to stay overnight reached 5.5 million, reaching 110% of the plan and up 300% over the same period in 2021.
Revenue from accommodation, catering and tourism services reached VND 11.9 trillion, up more than 122%.
Implementing the Lam Dong Provincial Party Committee’s Resolution No. 18-NQ/TU, dated July 25, 2022, on developing high-quality tourism in the province to 2025 with orientation to 2030, the Lam Dong Provincial People's Committee has directed and organised many programmes and events to attract domestic and foreign tourists, such as Lam Dong Tourism Golden Week, and has also been promoting the reopening of several charter flights from the Republic of Korea, Thailand, Malaysia to Lam Dong from July 2022.
Therefore, tourism activities in the province have recovered quickly.
The 9th Da Lat Flower Festival - 2022 is expected to attract a large number of visitors. The festival will feature a series of events from November to the end of December, consisting of nine main programmes, held mainly in the space of Da Lat City and Bao Loc City, along with 12 response programmes and more than 30 other events.
In 2022, all 18 socio-economic targets set by the province will be completed and exceeded (six targets) compared to the plan. In which, gross domestic product GRDP increased by 11.84%, GRDP per capita is 75.3 million VND, the rate of poor households according to multidimensional standards decreased to 1.87%, and the total state budget revenue in the area reached 13 trillion dong, up 18.1% and equal to 118.2% of the local estimate.
Lam Dong has also attracted 23 projects, with registered capital of more than 19.6 trillion VND; bringing the total number of projects in the province to 977 projects, with total registered capital of about 146 trillion VND.
The whole province has 109 of 111 communes meeting new rural standards (40 newly improved rural communes and 14 model new rural communes), 7 district-level units recognised as meeting new rural standards.
In 2023, Da Lat aims to welcome 6.5 million tourists to stay over, an increase of 18.2%, including the arrival of 250,000 international visitors, an increase of 67%.