Cai Be orchard, Tien Giang is a favorite destination of many tourists - Photo Internet
Tien Giang garden culture is simple, close and generous with diverse products from nature, with the red Tien River carrying rich alluvium that nourishes countless fruit-bearing orchards, fish ponds and rafts with fish and shrimp filling the holds every time fishermen return from the harvest.
The space of the garden is a straight village road, with bamboo hedges shading the countryside road, with golden ripe rice fields, with the occasional flying storks in the windy afternoon sky... along with the tropical monsoon climate with the characteristics of two rainy and sunny seasons, bringing a unique difference to the land of Tien Giang, creating a garden cultural space with the appeal of the cuisine here, which if separated from this space, certainly cannot create the unique flavor of the garden cultural cuisine.
Exploiting from cultural and historical relics
According to statistics, Tien Giang province currently has 22 national historical and cultural relics (including 1 special national relic) and 160 provincial historical and cultural relics associated with the names of national heroes and historical and cultural events that have been known to many domestic and foreign tourists such as: Rach Gam - Xoai Mut historical relic, Ap Bac victory relic, Truong Dinh temple, Royal mausoleum, Long Hung communal house, Oc Eo - Go Thanh archaeological relic...
Visiting Truc Lam Chanh Giac Zen Monastery, the largest pagoda in Tien Giang - Photo Internet
In addition, Tien Giang is also one of the cradles of amateur music, reformed opera and is the homeland of famous traditional craft villages such as: Go Cong altar, conical hat, Long Dinh mat weaving... These are advantages for tourism development. To take advantage of this advantage, in recent times, the development of tourism products of the province has been carried out in conjunction with promoting traditional culture, tourism resource advantages and especially connecting tourist areas and spots with historical and cultural relics to form typical tours.
According to Mr. Gian Ba Huynh, Chairman of Go Cong Town People's Committee, this locality is currently managing many extremely valuable preserved tangible cultural heritages, including many national and provincial historical and architectural relics (3 national historical and cultural relics and 12 provincial-level recognized relics)...
Vinh Trang Pagoda - Famous spiritual tourist destination in Tien Giang
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Every year, the town holds many traditional festivals imbued with national identity, attracting over 30,000 local and foreign visitors to visit and worship. To exploit this advantage in tourism development, in the coming time, the town will continue to coordinate with relevant provincial departments and branches to organize traditional festivals. At the same time, exploit the advantages of natural ecological conditions, cultural traditions, history of the town, cherry garden tourism, cuisine, visiting historical sites, craft villages, etc.
Create a breakthrough, with its own identity
Tien Giang is located at the gateway to the Mekong Delta, where three ecological zones (alluvial freshwater ecosystem, mangrove ecosystem and Dong Thap Muoi alum ecosystem) converge, creating famous specialty fruit gardens. Tien Giang is also a land rich in tradition with 22 national historical and cultural relics (including 01 special national relic) and 162 provincial historical and cultural relics.
To exploit the advantages and concretize Resolution 08-NQ/TW dated January 16, 2017 of the Politburo, the Provincial People's Committee submitted to the Provincial Party Committee to issue Resolution 11-NQ/TU dated April 5, 2017 on tourism development in Tien Giang province to 2020 with a vision to 2030 and Plan 118/KH-UBND dated May 5, 2017 on implementing Resolution 11-NQ/TU dated April 5, 2017.
Homestay resort in Tien Giang garden – Photo Internet
Tien Giang aims to create a breakthrough in comprehensive tourism development in terms of scope, scale and service quality, ensuring sustainability; striving by 2030, tourism will truly be a spearhead economic sector, with high growth rate, speed and quality, professionalism, a synchronous and modern technical infrastructure system; high-quality, diverse, branded and highly competitive tourism products;... making worthy contributions to socio-economic development.
Specifically, by 2030, it will welcome over 4.74 million visitors, an average increase of 8.57%; of which, there will be about 1,988 thousand international visitors. Total revenue from tourism will reach about 24 trillion VND. There will be about 670 accommodation establishments, with 18.7 thousand rooms. There will be at least 359 thousand workers in the tourism sector, of which about 14 thousand are direct workers.
Tien Giang Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism also encourages tourism businesses to develop tourism programs, in which connecting tours, river eco-tourism routes with historical - cultural relics, festivals, and craft villages to meet the needs of tourists. In addition, the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism will research and select a number of typical cultural festivals such as: The death anniversary of National Hero Truong Dinh, Dong Hoa Hiep Ancient Village Festival to develop, upgrade to become festivals of regional and national stature, thereby creating momentum for Tien Giang tourism to "take off".
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