(HBO) - For a long time, the beautiful nature and unique cultural identity of Mai Chau district in northern Hoa Binh province have been named on the national tourist map.
Mai Chau
preserves the traditional brocade weaving of the Thai ethnic group,
contributing to the locality’s tourism development.
The US-basedBusiness Insider magazine listed it as an indigenous
culture worth exploring, and one of the ten tourist destinations that give visitors interesting experiences.
The natural beauty and the Thai ethnic people’s culture fascinate visitors and holds their footsteps.
From the top of Thung Khe pass, tourists can enjoy the dreamy beauty of Vang village
with Thai people’s stilt houses, and green
fields lined up like chessboards hidden in white mists. Mai Chauis sobeautifulallyearround.
Mai Chau
district’s authorities have taken a series of measures to fully tap potential
for tourism development.
The locality has focused on building tourism development plans, preserving
cultural values and traditional handicrafts such as brocade weaving.
Attention has been paid to attracting investment for diversifying tourism
products to meet the demand of visitors.
The district is now home to 15 tourism and trade projects with total registered
capital of over 1.17 trillion VND. A number of them are operating effectively, including
eco-tourism and resort Ecolodge, Mat Troi eco-tourism site, and Mai Chau Hideaway, helping to attracting
more and more holiday-makers to the locality.
The average
number of visitors to Mai Chau increases 3.23 percent a year while the flow of
international arrivals rises 21.94 percent per year. The locality’s annual average
tourism revenue is estimated at 103 billion VND.
In its tourism development strategy, Mai Chau has set to become an attractive,
friendly and safe tourist destination by 2025, striving to realise its goal of tourist
arrivals averagely increasing by 9.7, and revenue from tourism activities
rising by 11.5 percent per year.
The district has just been recognised as a provincial-level tourism area./.
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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