Vietnam Leverages UNESCO Heritage for Economic Growth

via Vietnam Plus, 30 April 2024: Vietnam is capitalizing on its 65 UNESCO-recognized heritage assets to stimulate socioeconomic development across its 63 cities and provinces. The country’s UNESCO-listed assets include world heritage sites, biosphere reserves, and intangible cultural heritages, are not only preserving cultural treasures but also significantly boosting tourism.

The optimising of cultural heritage resources also entails the development of many other factors such as infrastructure, services, the expansion of exchanges, and the increase of flows of goods and labour, creating inclusive and harmonious development.

With outstanding efforts in preserving and promoting the values of UNESCO titles, Vietnam is considered as a model of harmony in preserving and promoting values of heritages in association with sustainable tourism development and expanding people’s livelihood.

Chairman of the People’s Committee of Ninh Binh Pham Quang Ngoc said that the province has defined the system of cultural and natural heritages and UNESCO titles as a foundation for the locality’s sustainable development.

Source: Optimising UNESCO titles for national development | Culture – Sports | Vietnam+ (VietnamPlus)