To buttress the huge economic potential of grape vines, promote Ninh Thuan tourism to visitors, create opportunities for Vietnamese and foreign investors to meet, exchange and seek investment opportunities, thus helping realise the Ninh Thuan socioeconomic development master plan until 2020, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism will coordinate with the Ninh Thuan Provincial People’s Committee to hold the International Grapes and Wine Festival 2014 in Ho Dieu Hoa Park, My Binh Ward, Phan Rang City, Ninh Thuan Province from April 10 to 12, 2014.
Themed “Vine and grape – Attractive tourism product”, the festival will have more than 100 booths for Vietnamese and foreign exhibitors from France, Chile, Argentina, Australia, Hungary, Romania, Germany and others to introduce their products made from grapes. This is also a rendezvous for grape growers in Ninh Thuan province and neighbouring localities. In the framework of the festival, many unique and colourful cultural and artistic activities will be organised, including the opening ceremony (with flower car parade, round boat racing, street music, photographic exhibition and award); an exhibition on grapes and wine products; cuisine and kite-flying contests; a seminar on “Ninh Thuan grapes – Jade in stone” to guide farmers to earn highest benefits from grapes and to help them to plant vines with the best methods; a performance on vine planting, grape harvesting, wine producing processes; art performance and fireworks in opening and closing ceremonies.
Ninh Thuan has the largest vineyards in Vietnam, with 2,500 ha mainly concentrated in Ninh Phuoc and Ninh Hai districts and Phan Rang-Thap Cham City. The grape output is in the range of 15,000 tonnes a year, with more than 10,000 tonnes sold to other provinces and cities in the country. Ninh Thuan grapes are processed for many kinds of products such as raisins, jelly and wine to meet customers’ demands. Therefore, the province pays much attention to processing grapes. |
Vo Dai, Vice Chairman of Ninh Thuan Provincial People’s Committee and Head of the Organising Board for the Ninh Thuan International Grapes and Wine Festival, said: “The festival is a major cultural, economic and social event to present the economic value of grapes and wine in the national economy in general and the Ninh Thuan economy in particular, to create business relationships between viticulturists, grapes traders and wine brewers with domestic and foreign firms, and popularise the “Ninh Thuan grapes” brand after completing geographical indication (GI) construction. The festival is an opportunity to introduce the unique products of Ninh Thuan, highlight vine values and products made from grapes, inspire viticulturists, advertise tourism potential and introduce other potentials in Ninh Thuan.”
According to King Star Joint Stock Company – the sponsor, the International Grapes and Wine Festival 2014 is a tourism and cultural festival elaborately and lavishly designed and set up in a vast space with many different activities to introduce local cultural and historical values to Vietnamese and international tourists, economic – cultural – social organisations. With meticulous preparation, the festival will certainly create a good impression on tourists and investors.
Đăng ký: VietNam News
