The Department of Cultural Heritage has just coordinated with the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Hoa Binh province to organize a training on implementing the model of the cultural heritage connected in the cultural tourism journey in Cao Phong and Lac Son districts.
The delegates and the trainees at the training class.
The training class equips the trainees with many skills to promote the value of the traditional cultural heritage of the community where they live, such as: identifying, analyzing, selecting and introducing the cultural heritages of which they are themselves the subject. In particular, the most prominent is the photovoice technique - the community tells its own cultural stories...
Participating in the training class, the trainees are equipped with knowledge to identify and select the heritages to introduce. They can practice skills in recording, collecting, editing, and connecting images, sounds and introductions to form stories about the cultural life of Muong ethnic people in Hoa Binh in general and Mo Muong in particular through their own eyes.
The application of the photovoice method helps the community have advantages in proactively and creatively preserving and promoting the cultural heritage; at the same time, it helps creat the opportunities for the heritage subject community to directly participate and benefit from the heritage interpretation and promotion activities associated with inter-provincial and inter-regional tourism development. The model has been deployed and implemented to contribute to protecting the local cultural resources, the intangible cultural heritage of the community and improve the livelihoods by promoting tourism development.
In the context of globalization and the fourth industrial revolution, the application of the photovoice method to interpret, introduce and promote the heritage values associated with tourism development is highly feasible, and it is suitable with the trend of the times.
In fact, the number of the members of Muong community in Hoa Binh who are using smartphones with the function of recording and broadcasting images accounts for over 80%. Many members of Muong ethnic community in Hoa Binh have used the function of recording and replaying recorded images on the social networking sites. However, most of these activities only serve the personal needs. The recorded and replayed images are emotional, spontaneous, and subjective, without a purpose in building the content, and without understanding the techniques of recording and editing images...
The northern mountainous province of Hoa Binh has been listed among the 71 most beautiful places to visit worldwide by the prestigious US travel magazine Condé Nast Traveller.
Hoa Binh province’s rich natural and cultural resources position it as a prime location for developing community-based tourism (CBT). In recent years, support from central and provincial policies, as well as assistance from non-governmental organisations, have encouraged local ethnic minority and mountainous communities to actively engage in the sector.
Van Son Commune, Tan Lạc district, Hoa Binh province also known as "Cloud Valley," boasts a cool climate, stunning natural landscapes, and majestic scenery. Visitors who have been to this place should make a stop at Chien Hamlet to experience a lot of fascinating things and feel the friendly, warmth of the Muong ethnic people.
Thanks to the effective exploitation of natural landscape and the cultural diversity of ethnic minorities, Hoa Binh province has become an attractive destination for tourists seeking experiences and exploration.
The Sung village in Cao Son commune, Da Bac district, is endowed with pristine natural landscape, and Dao Tien ethnic minority community in the village preserves rich cultural heritage, including traditional housing, clothing, language, scripts, customs, and daily life practices. Since the community-based tourism model was introduced in the locality, these traditional cultural values have been further preserved and promoted.
