Abstract: To further enhance the openness level of border areas, China is actively exploring the establishment of cross-border tourism cooperation zones. After years of construction, the Sino-Vietnam Detian-Ban Gioc Waterfall Cross-Border Tourism Cooperation Zone has completed a successful trial operation and accumulated construction experience, including the establishment of a working mechanism for domestic and foreign coordination, the innovation of a non-port border tourism model, the facilitation of customs clearance procedures for tourists, the construction of a safe tourism environment in the cooperation zone, the enhancement of the quality of tourism services, and the establishment of a cross-border tourism cooperation friend-city relationship. However, there are still related development problems in the cooperation zone. Based on this, this paper proposes promotion strategies such as innovating support policies for cross-border tourism cooperation zones, consolidating infrastructure construction, enriching high-quality tourism patterns and routes, enhancing tourism marketing capabilities, strengthening cultural and tourism talent team building, and continuously enhancing tourism safety, to accelerate the development of cross-border tourism between China and Vietnam and provide valuable reference and experience for the construction of cross-border tourism cooperation zones in other regions in China.

Key words: border tourism; cross-border tourism cooperation zones; Sino-Vietnam cooperation

Reprinted from Guangxi Economic Journal, 2024,42(04):60-69.