(HBO) - Tan Lac District is well- known as the ancient land of Muong Bi, "the cradle” of the famous Hoa Binh culture. The land is rich in ethnic cultural identities, natural tourism resources and diverse human resources, which create highlighted spot to attract tourists near and far to visit the ancient land and bring a new look for the district tourism.
The district has built up a Project of Tourism Development, promulgated the Resolution on developing the district tourism until 2010, with a vision up to 2030. All the tourist attractions and areas will be planned generally and specifically associated with the tourism planning of the province and the country.
At the district area, there are many beautiful landscapes, such as Muong Chieng Cave, Thac Bo Cave, Hoa Tien Cave, Trang Waterfall, Kien mountain Cave, Ngoi Hoa Port, Ngoc Son – Ngu Luong Natural Preservation Area, etc. The ethnic hamlets still keep traditional culture such as the ancient Muong village of Ai village (Phong Phu commune), Cu village (Tu Ne commune), Ngoi village (Ngoi Hoa), etc. A lot of festivals being organized have attracted thousands of participants like: Muong Bi Festival of summer coming (Phong Phu commune), Ke Pagoda Festival (Phu Vinh commune, traditional festival of stream fishing in March (Lo Son commune), etc. All of these have become the unique and attractive tourism products which are being invested and exploited in order to promote the effectiveness of tourism values and potential. There is an investigation in building the main and typical tourism products, which are community – based tourism, homestay to understand the culture of ethnic villages, resorts and spiritual – cultural tourism.
Trang Waterfall - Do Nhan commune (Tan Lac) is a tourist destination to attract tourists.
The district has created the most favorable conditions to attract the potential investors to survey, research and invest in the district tourism. Many projects in large scales have been implemented in the process of surveying and researching to build up projects, such as 2 projects of developing resort tourism associated with forest protection in Phu Cuong commune, 3 projects of high quality resorts in Ngoi Hoa commune.
In addition, the district has paid attention to build and expand the local tourism products, select the traditional industries for preserving and creating products to promote tourism. The outstanding traditional craft village of Vong Ngan Cooperative in Com village –Dong Lai commune with its brocading products of Muong ethnic minority has created its own brand, contributing to preserve traditional craft and promote the ancient tourism.
Together with concentrating on mobilizing resources for investment in tourism infrastructure, Tan Lac district also aims to develop the local cultural values through people performances at all levels, create the exchange environment for tourists when attending community- based tourism. It also restores all traditional festivals to create the typical tourism products, preserves and renovate hamlets, villages in order to keep the tradition features of Muong culture. Moreover, the district promotes the propaganda, introduction, advertisement about the potentials, strengths of tourist destinations in the district area, gradually make tourism of the ancient land become familiar to visitors. Since then, it can promote tourism development to commensurate with the potential, contributing to the economic restructure, job creation and poverty reduction. It can bring high effectiveness from non-smoke industry and contribute positively to develop the district economy and society. In 2017, in the whole district, there were 94,700 visitors, which gained the revenue of more than 10,9 billion dongs, the total revenue reached over 19 billion dongs.
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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