Workshop seeks measures to develop community tourism in Mai Chau

3/30/2019 - 5:50:12 PM

(HBO) - The People’s Committee of Mai Chau district on March 28 held a seminar on the development of community-based tourism in the district in 2019.

According to a report on Mai Chau district’s tourism, as of the end of 2018, the district had 139 tourist accommodation establishments, including 10 hotels, 26 hostels and 103 community hostels. The district has seven community-based tourism sites. Last year, it served 332,000 tourists, earning 107.57 billion VND (4.64 million USD) in revenue.

An overview of the workshop.

At the workshop, participants exchanged opinions on several difficulties the district is facing in developing community-based tourism. They also approved a set of regulations on managing tourism activities in Mai Chau with four chapters and 27 articles.

A leader of Mai Chau district’s People’s Committee asked for the early establishment of a tourism management board in Chieng Chau and Na Phon communes and Mai Chau town, the organisation of training courses for households doing homestay tourism, the registration of operating electric cars, and standardization of electric car driver licenses.

Attention should be paid to building a roadmap for the use of electric cars, considering the building of a welcome gate at Tong Dau T-junction and car parks, particularly those for electric cars, and intensifying dissemination of the regulations on tourism activities for tourism households.

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