Recently, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has issued Official Letter No. 597/BVHTTDL-TCDL to the local tourism management departments across the country about the preparation for reopening tourism activities from March 15.

Accordingly, in order to ensure the safe, effective and quality reopening of tourism activities, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism requested the Departments of Tourism Management of the provinces/cities to assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with relevant units in, advising the People's Committee of the province. The province/city shall issue a plan and plan to open tourism in accordance with the locality, on the basis of continuing to implement the instructions of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the Ministry of Health and guidelines and guiding documents related to tourism. reopen tourism.

The Departments need to propose solutions to handle risks in the process of reopening tourism activities; propagate the plan to reopen tourism in a safe and effective manner, in accordance with regulations on prevention and control of the COVID-19 epidemic; implemented the Program to launch domestic tourism to adapt safely, flexibly, and effectively control the COVID-19 epidemic.

Directing and guiding tourist zones, attractions, tourism business establishments and tourism services in the locality to actively develop plans to open tourism activities, including plans for COVID-19 prevention and control. -19 and handle when there is a case of COVID-19 according to regulations. Continue to strictly comply with regulations on epidemic prevention and control according to the instructions of the Government and the Ministry of Health to control the disease well. Self-inspection and review of the quality of technical facilities and services; invest in improvement and upgrading of degraded areas; expanding technical infrastructure to serve customers, meeting current conditions and standards. Based on the new situation and forecast of market demand, actively recruit, train and foster human resources to ensure service quality in time to meet the reopening of tourism.

Coordinate with relevant departments, agencies and sectors to set up an interdisciplinary inspection team to guide and support tourism businesses in the area to prepare for the reopening of tourism activities, and at the same time strictly handle cases. violate the provisions of the law.

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