Uong Bi: Promoting tourism strengths

Not only has a favorable geographical location, Uong Bi has many advantages for sustainable development of spiritual cultural tourism and community tourism. This is also the direction to exploit the strengths and sustainable development of Uong Bi tourism.

According to statistics, Uong Bi currently has 31 relics of all kinds. Of these, there are 2 relics ranked at the special national level, namely Yen Tu relic and scenic area and Den Cong communal house, 7 relics ranked at the provincial level and 22 relics in the list of classified inventories.

Khe Song - Silver Waterfall is a popular and highly rated tourist attraction.

Every year, the city has 8 traditional festivals, typically: Yen Tu Spring Festival, Ba Vang Pagoda Spring Festival, Lac Thanh communal house - pagoda festival, Hang Son temple - pagoda, Cong Temple... Uong Bi also owns many beautiful landscapes associated with unique indigenous culture, such as: Yen Trung Lake, Khe Song - Thac Bac, Phuong Nam river area associated with the specialty of Phuong Nam early ripening lychee, red-fleshed dragon fruit...

In particular, when mentioning Khe Su 1, Khe Su 2, Nam Mau 2 villages (Thuong Yen Cong commune), it is impossible not to mention the hand-woven and embroidered products; the culinary art with the dish of chicken soup and wine of the Dao Thanh Y ethnic group... "The above cultural values, festivals, scenic spots... all have their own characteristics and features, which are potential and valuable resources for tourism. Therefore, the city is very interested in promoting cultural strengths associated with the immediate and future tourism products of the locality" - Mr. Pham Xuan Thanh, Head of the Department of Culture and Information of Uong Bi City, shared.

Accordingly, in order to promote strengths and realize them into specific products, in recent times, Uong Bi has paid top attention to updating and ensuring tourism planning; investing heavily in digitalization and digital management in tourism; investing resources to develop tourism products...

To increase the attraction and create momentum for tourism, the city is interested in building and proposing to competent authorities effective incentive and promotion policies at destinations to attract tourists during low seasons. Accordingly, the city has issued plans to stimulate and develop tourism every year with many meaningful and attractive cultural and sports activities associated with events and holidays, typically: Traditional festivals at ranked relics; "Uong Bi welcomes summer" program, "Uong Bi Golden Autumn", climbing competition to conquer Binh Huong peak, climbing competition to conquer Ba Tang - Phuong Hoang peak...

Tourists visit Yen Tu spring festival.

In addition, the city also pays attention to human resources, tourism management... as a foundation to promote sustainable tourism. That is the establishment of a Management Board, promulgating specific regulations for each tourist destination, especially for community tourism activities; annually issuing documents to strengthen the management of festivals and tourist destinations to ensure civilized festivals, publicity and transparency... Regarding human resources training, in recent times, Uong Bi has actively coordinated with the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Department of Tourism... to open over 10 local training courses for nearly 2,000 officials and teams working in tourism and tourism services in the area; sending over 250 officials to attend classes organized by the province.

One of the highlights in creating resources for sustainable development is to pay attention to preserving and promoting the cultural values ​​of relics and scenic spots. From 2020 to now, Uong Bi has been interested in proposing to rank dozens of relics...

Typical examples include the completion of the dossier, requesting recognition as a National Treasure for the statue of King Tran Nhan Tong at Yen Tu Tower (2020); Recognition of the Nam Mau communal house - temple as a provincial relic (2021), the Ho Mountain Cave relic, Xep Bang Mountain Cave relic, Phuong Nam ward; inclusion of the Bao Long Pagoda relic, Phuong Dong ward in the list of classified relics of the province (2022). Currently, a scientific dossier is being built to propose the An Ky Sinh statue and Buddha Stele relic cluster at Yen Tu relic and landscape site as a National Treasure...

In particular, in July 2024, the city successfully organized the Scientific Workshop "Identifying, preserving and promoting the heritage values ​​of Uong Bi land in the direction of sustainable development of the city", receiving many opinions from experts and managers on the work of preserving and promoting the values ​​of cultural heritage associated with tourism development. This is a valuable basis and knowledge to serve the sustainable development of Uong Bi tourism in the future.

The unique features of the Thanh Y Dao Cultural Space Exhibition House attract tourists. Photo: Hoang Nga

The above efforts contribute to promoting sustainable tourism, contributing to the achievement of welcoming 3.3 million visitors and revenue of 1,815 billion VND of Uong Bi tourism in 2024. Last year, Uong Bi tourism also "introduced" many attractive tourism products. The most typical is the Dao Thanh Y Ethnic Cultural Space Exhibition House Project, which was just put into operation in August 2024, community tourism in Khe Su 2 village (Thuong Yen Cong commune)...

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