Blessed by nature with beautiful landscapes with hundreds of caves, waterfalls, grass hills and a cultural space imbued with ethnic identity, some destinations in Cao Phong district are likened to "fairyland" or "tourist paradise". Clearly identifying its potential and advantages, over the recent years, the district has continuously invested in embellishing, preserving and increasing the value of its landscapes and relic sites to develop tourism.
The Heritage
Park of Vietnamese Scientists (Meddom Park) in Bac Phong commune, Cao Phong
district, is one of the many attractive destinations for visitors of all ages.
In mid-July, Cao Phong One Member Co., Ltd. launched a new
tourism product: Ha Den vineyard tourist site in Cao Phong town. Coming there,
tourists are free to visit and take photos, and can buy grapes as gift.
Visitors are also guided by the company's technical staff on how to plant and
care for the vines if they want to experience it.
To make tourism and services a key economic sector of the
district by 2025, with an average growth reaching at least 15%, bringing the
proportion of the industry to 30% by 2025 and 40% by 2030, the district has
been focusing on implementing key tasks and solutions such as continuing to
promote dissemination to raise public awareness of tourism development,
mobilising resources to invest in building infrastructure, especially
transport, wharf and telecommunications infrastructure.
Attention will be paid to speeding up socialisation of
investment in construction of tourism infrastructure; building eco-resorts
combined with high-quality entertainment services, historical and cultural
relic sites, community-based and spiritual tourism sites; developing diverse
and attractive tours to attract more visitors; building typical local tourism
products; and improving the quality of spiritual tourism in the Hoa Binh Lake
tourist area like Thuong Bong Lai and Dong Son temples in Cao Phong town, Khanh
pagoda in Thach Yen commune, and Quen Ang pagoda, and Mo Muong cultural space
in Hop Phong commune.
To date, the district has established 88 Muong ethnic
cultural clubs in communes and residential areas and preserved over 1,600 gongs
and nearly 100 traditional stilt houses in the community. Tourism promotion and
development has received due attention.
In 2023, Cao Phong welcomed over 331,800 tourist arrivals,
including over 3,000 foreigners, a year-on-year increase of 114.4%. In the
first half of this year, over 225,000 tourists, including 3,315 foreigners,
chose the district as their holiday destination.
In recent years, based on the community tourism models of the Dao people in Cao Son commune and the Muong people in Hien Luong and Tien Phong communes, the authority of Da Bac district has built a model of this kind in the Tay ethnic community in Thu Lu hamlet, Giap Dat commune.
The People's Committee of Hoa Binh province on August 7 held a meeting to review the implementation of the project "Building upland communes in Tan Lac district into provincial-level tourist areas by 2030, with a vision to 2050" in the first months of 2024, and deploy tasks for the coming time. Nguyen Van Toan, Standing Vice Chairman of the provincial People's Committee, chaired the event.
The provincial People's Committee has just issued Decision No. 1419/QD-UBND on July 30th, 2024, regarding the recognition of Mo Hamlet Community Tourism Site.
After three years of implementing Resolution No. 05-NQ/HU, dated June 7, 2021, issued by the Lac Thuy Party Committee’s standing board on local tourism development for 2021-2025, the district has focused on forming distinctive cultural products linked to tourism to attract visitors. Its efforts have led to increasing tourist arrivals and tourism revenue, contributing to economic restructuring, job creation, state budget revenue collection, and higher living standards.
According to the Department of Culture, Sports, and Tourism, tourism business activities in the province have shown strong signs of recovery, and the province has achieved good growth in the first six months of this year. The total number of tourists visiting Hoa Binh is estimated at 2.6 million, increasing nearly 10% compared to that of the same period, achieving 61.9% of the annual plan.
Since the beginning of summer, the scenic Trang (Moon) waterfall has become a popular destination for tourists both within and outside the province. The development of food and sightseeing services has brought income to local households.