Photo: An amateur art troupe of Da Bia hamlet, Tien Phong commune (Da Bac district) is performing to serve tourists

 In 2017, the provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism has joined hands with relevant agencies to work out a plan to train and improve tourism skills for local people in communes around the Hoa Binh lake. The department advised the provincial People’s Committee to call for investors to build tourism products in Hoa Binh lake.

 Home-stay tourism skills were provided for 42 households offering community-based tourism services in Ngoi hamlet (Ngoi Hoa commune), Ke hamlet (Hien Luong commune) and Da Bia hamlet (Tien Phong commune) through a training course jointly held by the department and Hanoi Tourism College. They were equipped with basic home-stay tourism knowledge such as service quality management, communication skills, tourist serving at accommodations and food processing. After the training course, the local people were enabled to take part in fact-finding trips to study the community-based tourism model of Mong ethnic minority people in Hua Tat village, Moc Chau district, Son La province.

Dinh Quy Huu, a homestay owner in Ke hamlet, said that: "The training course brought us useful knowledge to run community tourism. In addition to raising our awareness of developing tourism while maintaining ethnic identities, it also encourages us to increase investment in accommodations and improve tourism product quality to better serve tourists’ demands.”

Following the training course, some households decided to shift from agricultural production to home-stay tourism business, he said, adding that three more families will pursue this model in the coming time, bringing the total number of home-stay service providers in the commune to five.

There is a substantial increase in the number of visitors to Ke village to experience the life and culture here, thus helping improve local livelihoods and preserve cultural values in the commune.

Recently, two professional training courses were organized for 240 people who are responsible for transporting and serving tourists on ships in Hoa Binh lake. The trainees were updated basic knowledge and skills on river eco-tourism, Hoa Binh tourism, tourism regulations, waterway transport law, environmental protection, communication skills and emergency aid.

The department also conducted surveys at community-based tourism sites to provide blankets, pillows and loudspeakers for families running home-stay tourism services as well as amateur art teams in Ngoi Hoa and Hien Luong communes./.

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