(HBO) - For a long time, Mai Chau town (Mai Chau) has been considered as a beautiful flower among Northwestern mountains by travelers, and those who have great love for tourism. With many beautiful natural landscapes and many ethnic villages with traditional identities, the town is the destination of many tourists. In December 2017, the People's Committee of the province approved the plan to raise the urban area of Mai Chau town from type V to type IV by 2020.
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The alleys in Mai Chau town (Mai Chau) have been gradually renewed and upgraded to serve the tourism development.
In order to expand the space of the town area to match the urban scale, in May 2016, Mai Chau district announced the decision to approve the Scheme on the adjustment of Mai Chau general construction planning with a scale of 1/5000 up to 2025 and the vision up to 2035.
According to the new plan, the direction of town space development will follow a concentrated urban model, developing together with the road which is parallel to the national highway 15. The district's main external traffic will be the national highway 6 and national highway. The adjusted planning area of the town is 4,640.93 hectares, in which the adjusted planning area is 1,029 hectares and the expanded planning area is 3,611.93. With the new planning, Mai Chau town will have adjacent points with Dong Bang, Mai Ha, Pu Bin, Thung Khe, Noong Luong, Na Phon and Na Meo communes.
With a large land fund (after planning), Mai Chau town will have more conditions to invest resources, developing the space of urban service areas. According to the new plan, the public service works such as cultural houses, exhibitions, children's playing areas, trade centers, supermarkets, administrative agencies and so on are built synchronously. The space of the concentrated residential areas in Mai Chau town will be deployed according to the model of taking green trees and public service works such as cultural houses, children's playing areas and kindergartens as a nucleus.
The polluting production facilities such as slaughterhouses, the facilities making noise and affecting the water and air environment are also expected to move out of the urban areas. The district will convert the land funds into green parks, parking lots and high quality public facilities after relocating. The development of the town's space is carried out in the spirit of respecting and preserving the old urban structure, forming a center with a distinctive identity and versatility.
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.
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