(HBO) -Hoa Binh City attracts a lot of tourists by the new cultural and entertainment destinations and services imprinting the city by the Red River although it is not a city of tourists.
The relics where Uncle Ho paid a visit to Hoa Binh Socialist Labor Youth
School
In recent years, Hoa Binh City tourism has changed dramatically. There have
been 8 recognized historical and cultural relics in Hoa Binh. They include 2
nationally recognized historical monuments, 6 provincially-recognized
historical relics.
Along with attracting investment, the city has paid attention to investing
in the construction of tourism infrastructure in the past 3 years (2015-2018).
At the same time, the city also creates the conditions for investors to exploit
the potential of building tourist sites and spots, develop various types of
service tourism, make and develop specific products to attract tourists market.
There are 120 accommodation establishments, including 14 one-star to three-star
hotels and 106 guesthouses with a total of 1,502 rooms in the city. In the past
year, Hoa Lac - Hoa Binh freeway was in use contributing to promoting the
socio-economic development of the province and the city, including tourism development.
The city has also had the construction plan to build tourist routes and
spots in the city and inter-regions including the tourist route of Hoa Binh
hydropower plant - Hoa Binh lake, Thac Bo temple - Thac Bo cave; Hoa Binh
reservoir - ethnic cultural villages in Thai Thinh commune; Hoa Binh City -
Muong Cultural Space Museum, visiting and discovering famous monuments of Tien
Phi cave, learning about the history of Hoa Binh Prison – the relics where
Uncle Ho paid a visit to Hoa Binh Socialist Labor Youth School. At the same
time, the city has promoted advertising activities, promoting tourism and
mobilizing resources for conservation, repair and restoration of historical
relics that are in danger of degradation, meeting the spiritual needs of people.
With the close guidance and positive moves to develop tourism, Hoa Binh
City has attracted domestic and foreign tourists to visit and relax there. In
2015, there were 600,000 tourists visiting Hoa Binh with the total revenue of
88.9 billion VND, then in 2018, the city expects 710,300 visitors paying a
visit Hoa Binh with the total estimated revenue of 196 billion VND.
In the first 9 months of 2024, Hoa Binh province continues to implement the expanded tourism development cooperation program plan of 8 Northwest provinces with Ho Chi Minh City; deploying digital transformation content in tourism and developing a smart tourism province. Hoa Binh province received about 3.6 million views, an increase of 7.9% over the same period. In which, international visitors are about 380 visitors, domestic visitors are estimated at 3 million 220 visitors.
Spanning thousands of hectares and winding gracefully along mountain slopes, hillsides, and riverbanks, the terraced rice fields of Lac Son District present a stunning and captivating beauty. This region, renowned for its remarkable terraced landscapes, is also the centre of Hoa Binh Culture known for numerous archaeological sites.
The life of Mong people in Hang Kia and Pa Co communes of Mai Chau district has improved much thanks to tourism development.
The man-made Hoa Binh Lake, with a water surface area of approximately 9,000 hectares and a capacity of 9.45 billion cubic meters, stretches over 200 kilometers from Hoa Binh to Son La provinces. With the goal of developing into a national tourism area, the Hoa Binh Lake tourism area is expected to not only become the largest tourism centre in the province but also one of the 12 key tourist destinations in the northern midland and mountainous region of Vietnam.
Da Bia hamlet, now Duc Phong, in Tien Phong commune, Da Bac district, was once almost isolated from the outside as the only way to the hamlet was to get a boat ride across the Hoa Binh reservoir. However, as its tourism potential has been unleashed, the hamlet has established itself as one of the most attractive destinations on the tourism map. It has even received the ASEAN Community-Based Tourism Awards in 2019.
In the first 9 months of 2024, Mai Chau district, Hoa Binh province welcomed over 684 thousand visitors to visit and relax. In which, over 516 thousand domestic visitors and more than 168 thousand international visitors. Total revenue from tourism is estimated at over 821 billion VND.