Since to beginning of the year up to now, there has been 165,781 tourists, nearly 135,781 of which are foerign tourists. Because of the increase in the number of incoming tourists, many tourist trading enterprises and private services unit are strongly pushing up their investment in the sector.
This year’s Tet, tourists who come to Ben Tre will have a chance to admire what the Vietnamese Tourism Bureau has chosen as the province’s best attractions, and the province is also chosen to be among the five best destinations in the Mekong Delta.
Ben Tre has many rivers and canals. It also has the largest coconut area in Viet Nam. Its fruit areas distribute all over the land, but concentrate mostly in Cho Lach and Chau Thanh. Ben Tre has favourable conditions to develop green tourism, or eco-tourism, as it retains somewhat untrodden nature and clean ecology, green strips of coconut and fruit gardens.
Tourist business in Ben Tre has been better developed, helping to draw more and more domestic as well as foreign tourists to come over to the land. With diverse potentials for eco-tourism, Ben Tre has been increasingly becoming a destination for international tourists.
