Cua Lo town in Nghe An Province hopes to welcome 2.25 million tourists, including more than 1.4 million who will stay overnight and 550,000 foreigners, who will spend VND1.75 trillion ($83.3 million).

It has been upgrading infrastructure and adding hotel rooms to improve the quality of tourism services and become a beach tourism destination by 2015.

Last year Cua Lo received 2.12 million visitors, a 9.6 per cent increase over 2012, and reported earnings of VND1.46 trillion, almost a third higher than in 2012. — VNS