Consultation workshop discusses measures to reduce plastic waste in tourism activities

The event was co-organised by the Vietnam Tourism Association and the Ninh Binh Tourism Association. Standing Vice President of the Vietnam Tourism Association Vu The Binh chaired the workshop.

At the workshop, environmental experts presented issues related to plastic waste on the world and its impacts on Vietnam's tourism sector.

Accordingly, Vietnam ranked fourth in the world in the volume of plastic trash discharged into seas. In 2019, it discharged approximately 230,000 tonnes. 

As Ninh Binh and Quang Nam provinces have potential to develop green and eco-friendly tourism, the Vietnam Tourism Association chose these two localities to implement a project on "Reducing plastic waste in the tourism sector". The project is scheduled to be carried out in 2022 and 2023.

It is part of the project of UNDP in Vietnam. The project aims to research, study, survey and build up action plans to reduce plastic rubbish in the tourism industry.

It will pay attention to the communication work to raise awarenss of local people and tourists about plastic waste while building some pilot community-based no-plastic waste models and creating an application to manage plastic rubbish in the tourism sector.

The project's goal is to build Ninh Binh into an example destination in reducing plastic waste in tourism and then multiply it in the whole country.

It would help promote the images of green tourism and the goal of developing sustainable tourism of Ninh Binh and other localities. 

Translated by Nguyen Thuy