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Work can be started on only some projects until 2015 and it will take at least over two years to put some components of such projects into use, said Le Minh Hoang, director of Hoang said tourism and hotel projects account for two-thirds of a total of some 170 projects approved on the island. However, only 23 small and medium projects of fewer than 160 rooms have been implemented after many years. There are many reasons for the slow progress of tourism projects, including economic difficulties and unfinished infrastructure. Key roads on the island off With such reasons, the province has granted an extension for investors of slow-moving projects, allowing them until later this year to decide whether to keep working on or halting projects. According to Hoang, small and medium projects which are being implemented from now until 2015 will provide only 500-700 rooms and Phu Quoc will still lack rooms. “The province’s tourism growth is 12% per year and that of Phu Quoc is 17-20%. The number of tourists visiting the island rose by up to 34.5% to 474,000 in the year’s eight-month period,” Hoang said. Phu Quoc currently has 2,900 rooms, with around 2,400 of them meeting standards for tourists. The shortage of hotel rooms not only affects the island’s tourism growth but also prevent foreign airlines from flying there. The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) is still inviting foreign air carriers to launch flights to Ho Quoc Cuong, head of the Air Transport Department, told the Daily that CAAV had invited some foreign enterprises to open flights to some tourist destinations such as Nha Trang, Dalat, Can Tho and Phu Quoc. Although CAAV has yet to receive any applications from foreign air carriers for flying to Phu Quoc, Cuong said. Inaugurated in December, 2012, Source: SGT |
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