Tourism industry recovers after floods

Stop holding festivals

Faced with such an urgent situation, the province decided to suspend the Festival of Representative Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity and the Thanh Tuyen Festival in 2024, when preparations for the opening ceremony had been carefully and thoughtfully prepared, especially the Thanh Tuyen Festival was granted a trademark registration certificate by the Department of Intellectual Property. All tourism services during the Thanh Tuyen Festival in 2024 were completely stopped due to flooding after storm No. 3. Hundreds of Mid-Autumn lantern models of hamlets and residential groups in Tuyen Quang city had to be stored, suffering heavy damage. The exciting street festivals were canceled due to storms and rains, leaving locals and tourists with only regret.

A group of tourists from Quang Binh province offered incense and visited Na Nua hut.

In addition to “ruining” the province’s biggest festival of the year, storm No. 3 also left serious consequences for the tourism industry. During the flood relief and recovery period, all entertainment, recreation, and tourism activities were completely frozen. Many relics, hotels, motels, homestays, restaurants, tourist areas and spots were flooded and trees fell. Landslides in some districts, garbage flowing from upstream to Tuyen Quang hydroelectric reservoir, affected the psychology, emotions, and tourism environment.

Mr. Le Thanh Son, Deputy Director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, said: In the face of the difficulties caused by natural disasters to the province's tourism, the sector has directed tourism establishments to overcome difficulties and strive to restore tourism activities to normal. In particular, it requires travel agencies in the area to strengthen promotion, connection, and bring tourist groups to Tuyen Quang for tourism. It shows that the tourism environment in the area is safe, with the best facilities, services, and products ready to welcome visitors back. In October, the number of visitors increased again, which is a good sign for tourism in the province.

Tourists experience Khuoi Nhi waterfall.

Stabilize, restore

Ms. Chau Thi Nga, Director of Co Son Nu Trading and Tourism Company Limited (Tuyen Quang City) actively connected and brought nearly 200 guests from Oxalis Adventure Company - a pioneer in organizing tours to experience and explore caves in Quang Binh - to "break ground" in Tuyen Quang after the storm. The group visited and experienced the Tan Trao Special National Monument (Son Duong); My Lam Hot Spring Tourist Area (Tuyen Quang City) and the Na Hang - Lam Binh ecological lake; stayed at a homestay and enjoyed local cuisine in Na Tong village, Thuong Lam commune, Lam Binh. Mr. Nguyen Chau A - General Director of Oxalis Adventure Company, Head of the tour group said that Tan Trao is truly the Capital of the Liberation Zone, the Resistance Capital of the Vietnamese Revolution. Coming here, the staff of Oxalis Adventure Company feel proud of the revolutionary tradition of their ancestors.

Ms. Le Thi Ngoc Ha, Deputy Director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Quang Binh province, a guest who visited and surveyed tourism with the delegation, affirmed that the water in the Na Hang - Lam Binh ecological lake after the flood was clear and the environment was safe again. The delegation was impressed with the cuisine and cultural identity of ethnic minorities at the homestays in Na Tong village, Thuong Lam commune (Lam Binh). Through the trip, the delegation saw that Tuyen Quang has many potentials and strengths in tourism: revolutionary history tourism, eco-tourism, spiritual tourism, resort tourism, community tourism. If well planned and exploited, Tuyen Quang tourism will certainly become an important economic sector with its own characteristics.

Tourists enjoy campfire at Tai Ngao homestay, Thuong Lam commune, Lam Binh.

The delegation visited Na Hang - Lam Binh Nature Reserve, Mr. Dinh Minh Tuyen, Deputy Director of the Forest Protection Management Board of Minh Hoa District, Quang Binh, a member of the delegation, surveyed tourism, said that Tuyen Quang preserves its forests very well. Taking a motorboat tour on the lake, everywhere you look are vast green forests. If the forests are well preserved and the primary forests are developed, local tourism will develop sustainably.

Along with promotional, advertising and travel activities, the Provincial Tourism Management Board organized a tourism resource survey program to build tourism products at Tan Trao Tourist Area (Son Duong), survey the Tan Trao special-use forest eco-tourism route; relic sites of Tan Trao, Trung Yen (Son Duong), Kim Quan (Yen Son) communes.

Comrade Do Trung Kien, Head of the Provincial Tourism Management Board, affirmed that the survey trip is the basis for the province to continue to build diverse and quality tours, products and tourism services with local identity. The goal is to build Tan Trao into a national tourist area in the future, helping Tuyen Quang tourism recover after the Covid-19 pandemic and storm No. 3 quickly, sustainably, and centrally.

TK (According to baotuyenquang.vn)

Source: https://baophutho.vn/nganh-du-lich-phuc-hoi-sau-lu-221426.htm