(HBO) - In Mai Chau district, the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism has organized a training course on tourism skills for the households doing business in community tourism services in two communes, Hang Kia and Pa Co.
The learners are
participating in training course on a business community tourism in Mai Chau district.
There are 20 trainees participating
in the training course, who are directly involved in making schedules at the
households doing community tourism in 2 communes, Hang Kia and Pa Co. At the
training course, the trainees heard lecturers convey the main contents such as
some guidelines and policies of the Party and State on tourism development, the
directives, the resolutions and the schemes of the province on Hoa Binh tourism
development in general and Mai Chau tourism in particular.
They also heard some skills in communication,
behavior, handling of common situations in tourism activities, tourism culture,
the methods of capturing the psychology, customs and practices of tourists in a
number of regions and countries. The lecturers talked about preserving,
exploiting and developing the cultural identity of Mong ethnic people in
association with developing community tourism, and how to build specific
products to serve tourists, marketing and selling tourism products ...
Through the training course, the
trainees have been equipped with some basic knowledge and professional skills
on tourism, improving the quality of the human resources for the households
doing community tourism in the two communes, Hang Kia and Pa Co, which
contributes to implementing the targets to turn Mai Chau district into the
tourism area at the provincial level in the near future.
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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