Green tourism journey connecting 3 heritage regions

The three provinces of Nghe An, Thanh Hoa, and Ninh Binh all have rich and diverse natural resources. This place converges all types of tourism with many valuable historical and cultural relics, famous scenic spots, beautiful natural landscapes, many national and special national historical and cultural relics, many World Heritages recognized by UNESCO such as: Trang An World Cultural and Natural Heritage (Ninh Binh), Ho Dynasty Citadel World Cultural Heritage (Thanh Hoa), World Intangible Heritage of Nghe Tinh Vi and Giam Folk Songs. This is the strength, the core value that the three provinces focus on exploiting to serve tourists in the "Green Tourism Journey".

Cycling is one of the favorite experiences of tourists when traveling.

Mr. Bui Van Manh - Director of Ninh Binh Province Department of Tourism said that sustainable tourism and green tourism are becoming an inevitable trend globally, not only helping to protect the environment but also bringing long-term socio-economic values. In recent years, tourism development cooperation activities between the three provinces have been increasingly focused on, especially in coordinating the promotion of typical tourism products as well as new tourism products.

Notably, many tours have been exploited and continued to be developed such as the Western Nghe An Community Tourism Discovery Program, Pu Mat National Park - connecting with Ben En National Park Thanh Hoa - Ninh Binh - Hanoi - Northwestern provinces tourism; connecting Northwestern tourism with Nghe An via the Ho Chi Minh trail and National Highway 1A; unique tours of the region connecting through the ancient Vietnamese capitals (Hoa Lu Ancient Capital, Ho Dynasty Citadel and Quang Trung King Temple)...

Mr. Ha Van Sieu - Deputy Director of Vietnam National Administration of Tourism. Photo: Minh Duong

Mr. Ha Van Sieu - Deputy Director of Vietnam National Tourism Administration highly appreciated the connection and cooperation between the three localities in building the "Green Tourism Journey" and hoped that businesses would work together to build products to enrich the products for the three provinces.

"The three localities have joined together to create new itineraries and new product lines to meet the needs of tourists, while enhancing the experience for tourists, increasing revenue and, importantly, keeping tourists staying longer. For this tourism journey to be effective, localities need to strengthen the connection of routes. Green here is not only the natural environment but also green culture, society, friendly and close products, connecting people with people, people with nature. To do this, localities should take the uniqueness of indigenous culture as the core, to honor and create a difference for local tourism," Mr. Ha Van Sieu emphasized.

Ninh Binh province's tourism businesses were awarded the "VITM Green" Certificate at the Excellent level. Photo: Minh Duong

Mr. Truong Quoc Hung - Chairman of the Hanoi UNESCO Travel Club said that localities and travel businesses need to plan their own new strategies, raise awareness as well as provide training on green tourism and community-based tourism. In particular, in the process of tourism development, it is necessary to avoid impacts on the environment and landscape so that these values ​​​​can be a "magnet" to attract tourists to localities.

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