(HBO) – The Hoa Binh provincial Steering Committee on Tourism held a conference in Mai Chau district on July 23 to review the development activities in the field in the first six months and launch tasks for the rest of this year.
Currently,
the province has 31 operating tourism areas and destinations, including nine
destinations recognised as local tourist sites, along with 412 accommodation
facilities, including 37 hotels, 233 motels, and 142 facilities providing homestay
services, with 3,412 rooms in total.
Hoa
Binh is hosting six travel firms as well as subsidiaries and representative
offices of travel companies. The locality has one shopping mall meeting the
requirements of visitors.
In
the first six months of this year, the province welcomed over 1.84 million
tourists, fulfilling 61.5 percent of the yearly target, 153,580 of them
foreigners. Total revenue of the local tourism sector topped 1 trillion VND (43
million USD) in the period, completing 50.08 percent of the yearly target.
In
the rest of the year, the provincial Steering Committee on Tourism will
implement four major missions, including continuing to strengthen
communications and popularization of the Party and State’s policies on tourism
development, thus enhancing the public awareness of the role and position of
the tourism sector in the province’s social-economic development strategy.
The
committee will direct sectors and localities as well as relevant agencies to improve
their activeness and responsibility in effectively implementing tasks set in resolutions,
planning, programmes and plans for tourism development in the province.
At
the same time, it will promote the inspection and supervision by departments,
sectors and members of the committee, while encouraging the engagement of the
Party Committees at different levels as well as organisations in expanding
local tourism, and supporting investors in conducting their tourism projects in
the locality./.
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.