Hoa Binh is a mountainous province in the Northwest with many ethnic groups living together: Muong, Kinh, Thai, Tay, Dao and Mong. The cultural values imbued with the identity of the ethnic groups have created the attraction of community tourism here.
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A corner of Hoa Binh Lake. (Photo: Hong Hanh) |
Many development advantages
Hoa Binh is one of the provinces that developed the community tourism model earliest compared to the northern mountainous provinces. Since the 90s, the community tourism model in Lac village (Chieng Chau commune, Mai Chau district) has been known to tourists, especially international visitors.
Hoa Binh province currently holds many advantages to develop community tourism, especially in mountainous areas and ethnic minority areas. The natural landscape is majestic, with many beautiful caves and nature reserves that are diverse and rich in ecosystems and flora and fauna...
Hoa Binh Lake has a charming landscape with the potential of 47 large and small islands, creating a space like Ha Long Bay on the mountain, creating favorable conditions for Hoa Binh tourism to develop. The overlapping limestone mountain terrain has created many beautiful caves such as: Dragon Head Mountain Cave Complex (Cao Phong District); Tien Pagoda Cave Complex (Lac Thuy District); Ngoi Hoa Cave, Nam Son (Tan Lac District); Trung Son Cave (Luong Son District) ...
Primitive tropical forests such as: Pu Canh Nature Reserve, Da Bac district; Ngoc Son - Ngo Luong Nature Reserve, Tan Lac and Lac Son districts; Thuong Tien Nature Reserve, Kim Boi district; Pa Co - Hang Kia Nature Reserve, Mai Chau district...
In addition to rich natural resources, Hoa Binh also has human tourism resources imbued with the cultural identity of the Muong, Kinh, Thai, Tay, Dao, Mong ethnic groups with diverse and rich human values. This place has a famous prehistoric culture of Hoa Binh culture - considered the cradle of the Vietnamese - Muong culture, the homeland of the epic De dat, De nuoc .
Hoa Binh currently has 41 relics ranked at the national level and 53 relics at the provincial level; with many folk festivals of ethnic groups still preserved and promoted, such as: Khai Ha Muong Bi Festival (Tan Lac district); Den Bo Festival (Cao Phong and Da Bac districts); Chua Tien Festival (Lac Thuy district); Xen Muong Festival (Mai Chau district) ... have been attracting domestic and international tourists from France, America, Australia, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, England ...
Help ethnic minorities escape poverty
In recent years, community tourism in Hoa Binh province has been considered an important economic sector. Community tourism destinations have been increasingly interested, supported and developed through projects and policies of the Central and the province.
Thanks to taking indigenous culture as the root, community tourism has developed strongly in Hoa Binh and spread to neighboring localities, the number of domestic and foreign tourists coming to Hoa Binh is increasing.
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Dao women in Sung hamlet, Cao Son commune, Da Bac district, Hoa Binh province weave brocade skirts. (Photo: Hong Hanh) |
According to the report of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Hoa Binh province, in the first 6 months of 2023, the whole province welcomed 2.36 million visitors, an increase of 28.8% over the same period last year, reaching 67.4% of the annual plan. Of which, there were 240,000 international visitors and 2,120 thousand domestic visitors. Total revenue from tourists reached 2,300 billion VND, an increase of 16.2% over the same period last year, reaching 59% of the annual plan. In particular, the contribution of community tourism is not small. Community tourism has been creating sustainable livelihoods, helping ethnic minorities and mountainous areas of Hoa Binh province escape poverty and become rich.
Although community tourism in Hoa Binh has attracted many visitors in recent times, the development of community tourism has encountered a number of difficulties and challenges and revealed a number of shortcomings and limitations that need to be overcome, such as: The road system connecting villages, hamlets, and community tourism destinations is still difficult and unsynchronized; the clean water supply system, waste and wastewater treatment areas have not received investment attention; low-quality telecommunications infrastructure has not met the needs of tourists; tourism products are poor, monotonous, and of low quality...
To develop community tourism commensurate with its potential and strengths, Mr. Nguyen Van Toan, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, Head of the Tourism Steering Committee of Hoa Binh province, said: The People's Committee of Hoa Binh province issued Decision No. 446/QD-UBND dated March 10, 2020 approving the Project on Developing Community Tourism Associated with New Rural Development in Hoa Binh province by 2030.
Accordingly, Hoa Binh province strives to invest in building infrastructure for 290 community tourism households by 2030, welcoming over 1.65 million tourists; total revenue from community tourism accounts for 19.5% of total revenue from tourists. The province will support the expansion of community tourism models for communes in mountainous areas; support investment and upgrading of transport infrastructure connecting community tourism sites, etc.
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