(HBO) - The land of Muong Bi - Tan Lac has the potential of "heaven treasure" to develop the types of ethnic cultural identities and ecological tourism in the area of Hoa Binh Lake. Two lakeside communes of Tan Lac - Ngoi Hoa and Trung Hoa - have romantic and beautiful sceneries, and Muong ethnic identity is also being kept here. The local people have built tourism products to meet the needs of tourists.


The poetic landscape of Trung Hoa commune (Tan Lac) is a good advantage for the development of ecotourism in association with the ethnic cultural identity.

 

Ngoi Hoa commune is the target of many investment enterprises in tourism industry to run business. Ngoi village is a long-standing village of Muong ethnic people, to be considered as one of the most beautiful and primitive lakeside hamlet in the province. Ngoi Hoa Bay, Hoa Tien Cave, Tien Lake, the beautiful and attractive primitive areas, wild natural sceneries make an opportunity to build tourism products to meet the needs of tourists.

Trung Hoa is a commune located in the lakeside with many hamlets and villages preserving ethnic cultural identity. The commune has wild natural landscapes, white limestone mountains full of enchanting. Especially, there is a blue lake in the mountains, the scenery is very poetic; all of which has made a good opportunity to exploit the development of ecological and identity tourism, community – based tourism.

Hoa Binh Lake tourism development is a focus of tourism development orientation of Tan Lac district. The district is launching a project to preserve Muong ethnic cultural identity in association with the development of a community tourism site in Ngoi village, Ngoi Hoa commune. At the same time, the district has also concentrated on supporting the investors to clear the surface of 435 Road (Binh Thanh - Thung Nai - Ngoi Hoa). The province has agreed to invest in the road construction to Hoa Tien Cave (Ngoi Hoa), connecting from Ngoi village to Ba Khan, towards to the entrance of Hoa Tien Cave. When this route is put into operation, it will meet the exploitation need of Hoa Tien Cave national scenic spot. The Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism has investigated to build the road route from Ngoi Hoa - Trung Hoa - Phu Vinh - Ba Khan (Mai Chau). In the first 6 months of 2018, the district opened a training course of exploiting community homestay tourism business for 30 households. The tourism activities have initially been delighted, the number of tourists and the amount of tourism revenue have been improved. In 2017, the total number of visitors to the district was 94.6 thousand people, which has increased by 12 thousand visitors compared with the previous year, the tourism revenue reached at 10.9 billion VND, the income from tourism reached at 17.7 billion VND. In the first six months of 2018, Tan Lac district has been greeting 76 thousand visitors.

 

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