For Ha Nam province tourism to "take off"

The conference was attended by a large number of domestic and international delegates. At the conference, the World Travel Awards (WTA) honored Ha Nam province with the title of “Asia’s Leading Emerging Tourist Destination”.

To receive this honor, Ha Nam surpassed 10 candidates who are famous landmarks from 8 countries: Brunei, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia, Taiwan (China), Indonesia (2 landmarks), Japan (2 landmarks).

Also at the Conference, the People's Committee of Ha Nam province signed a cooperation agreement on tourism development, and granted investment decisions and certificates to investors in this field. Exactly 1 year ago, for the first time, Ha Nam was honored by WTA with the title "World's Leading Local Cultural Destination 2023".

Tam Chuc Pagoda (Ha Nam). Photo: VNA

In 2023, Ha Nam welcomed more than 4 million tourists, with total tourism revenue reaching more than 3,000 billion VND. In the first 9 months of 2024 alone, Ha Nam welcomed about 4.2 million visitors, with total tourism revenue reaching more than 3,200 billion VND. A positive signal contributing to the socio-economic development of the province, thereby creating momentum to promote the development of other industries and sectors.

Located in the Northern Delta economic region, with a diversity of limestone mountain landscapes and caves, combined with a hot and humid tropical climate and heavy rain, Ha Nam has many unique landscapes with famous sights. The province's river and lake system is dense with the poetic beauty of the Red River, Day River, Chau River, Nhue River, Tam Chuc Lake; the typical lowland agricultural ecosystem has unique features.

Ha Nam's humanistic tourism resources have many outstanding values, demonstrated through a system of 230 ranked relics: 97 national relics (including 2 relics ranked as special national relics), 133 provincial relics. The whole province currently has 209 traditional folk festivals and more than 40 unique and long-standing craft villages.

Ha Nam is a land of mandarinate with famous people in history, such as: Tam Nguyen Yen Do Nguyen Khuyen; Martyr, realist writer Nam Cao, Bui family who passed mandarinate exams...

The heroic land of Ha Nam has many historical sites of war, many revolutionary bases with many generations of heroes and heroes rising up from the historical journey of fighting against foreign invaders of the nation. Ha Nam cuisine is rustic, imbued with the soul of the lowland countryside, such as: Banh cuon, kho ca, banh da ca ro dong, tam rice... Ha Nam has an important strategic position, located on key traffic routes and near major economic centers such as Hanoi, Nam Dinh, Ninh Binh, adjacent to major tourist destinations such as Huong Pagoda (Hanoi), Bai Dinh - Trang An (Ninh Binh), convenient for connecting and developing inter-regional tourism products.

Ha Nam has many opportunities to develop a qualified tourism infrastructure system: Currently, the province has more than 200 accommodation establishments with nearly 4,000 rooms, 3 5-star hotels, 4 3-star hotels and 19 2-star hotels, 129 standard motels, ensuring minimum conditions for tourism accommodation business and more than 30 domestic travel businesses. Ha Nam has a lot of potential and advantages to develop a variety of rich and attractive tourism types; Ha Nam tourism is fully capable of becoming a key economic sector.

In recent years, Ha Nam tourism has developed quite rapidly. Many tourist areas and spots have been planned, key tourism projects continue to be invested in building infrastructure and developing products. In particular, Tam Chuc National Tourist Area and 14 tourist spots of the province have been recognized as breakthroughs to promote Ha Nam tourism to develop strongly in the following years, at the same time opening up a direction for tourism development linkages, with major tourist centers in the region such as Hanoi, Ninh Binh, Nam Dinh, Thai Binh, Quang Ninh, Hai Phong.

With appropriate and certain directions, Ha Nam is actively implementing Resolution No. 82/NQ-CP, dated May 18, 2023 of the Government on "key tasks and solutions to accelerate recovery and accelerate effective and sustainable tourism development" in the direction of "Unique products - Professional services - Convenient and simple procedures - Competitive prices - Clean and beautiful environment - Safe, civilized and friendly destinations", contributing to creating a breakthrough in socio-economic development for the province in particular and the southern Red River Delta in general.

To develop sustainable tourism, Ha Nam needs to effectively implement the "Master plan for tourism development in Ha Nam province to 2030, vision to 2050"; organize management and implement the plan to ensure the sustainability of tourism resources and the tourism environment. At the same time, develop detailed plans for new tourist areas and destinations and review and supplement the plans of approved tourist areas and destinations; advise on the development and promulgation of policies and mechanisms to encourage socialization of tourism, create an attractive investment environment, and attract non-budgetary capital sources to invest in tourism and service development.

Based on the main orientations in developing tourist markets; tourism products; ways to organize tour spaces, routes, areas, and tourist spots; developing tourism clusters, Ha Nam province has focused on building many policies and mechanisms on tourism development; implementing solutions to diversify and improve the quality of tourism products; promoting and advertising tourism; promoting investment; linking economic sectors and localities; mobilizing resources to create a breakthrough in tourism development of the province.

Ba Danh Pagoda is located next to the Day River. Photo: Dan Tri Newspaper

Ha Nam is also reviewing, establishing and adjusting the development plan for historical and cultural relics and craft villages, as a basis for attracting investment in tourism development in the direction of linking them into intra-provincial and inter-provincial tourism and service chains, such as: Lanh Giang Temple - Nha Xa silk weaving village; Doi Son Pagoda - Doi Tam drum craft village (Duy Tien); Ba Danh Pagoda, Quyet Thanh pottery craft village (Kim Bang)...

Ha Nam is continuing to actively improve the investment and business environment and enhance competitiveness; especially building policies and mechanisms to encourage businesses and people to invest in tourism development, new tourism products with Ha Nam tourism characteristics, attracting domestic and foreign tourists; creating favorable conditions, prioritizing investment in tourism human resource development. Supporting, connecting and encouraging organizations and individuals to train and foster tourism human resources in the province; organizing market research, collecting information and trends of tourists; building tourism promotion and advertising programs suitable for each stage and target group, especially international tourist markets; promoting digital transformation, applying science and technology in tourism management, promotion and development.

Ha Nam always determines to develop tourism in a professional, sustainable, focused and key direction, on the basis of suitability with the potential and strengths of each region. In the immediate future, the province continues to invest in the infrastructure and facilities for the province's tourist areas with international standards and scale, in which the Tam Chuc Tourist Area Investment Project plays a particularly important role and significance.

With the successful organization of the Ha Nam Province Tourism Development Investment Promotion Conference in 2024, along with synchronous investment, the construction progress of the Tam Chuc Tourist Area project has been accelerated, thereby creating more opportunities and motivation to promote Ha Nam tourism to develop faster and stronger.

According to People's Army

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