VIETNAM - Phu Quoc island becomes focus of ecotourism

Thanhniennews.com, january 12 2007

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung signed a decision earlier this week which envisages the 561 sq.km island attracting two to three million tourists a year by then.
It will have 3,500 hotel rooms by 2010 – 3.5 times last year’s number – with a third of them of 3-5 star standard.
By 2015 the number of rooms will go up to 8,200, and by 2020 to 18,000. The proportion of rooms of 3 to 5-star quality will also steadily rise.
The island will have 16 tourism complexes offering diving, rowing, fishing, watersports, shopping, golf, MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conventions and Events), and horse and dog racing.
The local government has been instructed to channel investment in the next three years into infrastructure development.
The island has a coastline of 150 km and is about an hour’s flight from Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore.

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