(HBO) - Together with maintaining cultural identities of Thai and Mong ethnic groups to develop tourism, Mai Chau district has paid attention to upgrading rural transport infrastructure. Despite a wide terrain and many hills, Mai Chau has a convenient rural road system which meets the travel demand of locals and contributes to welcoming investors to the tourism sector.
Pa Co commune’s roads have been invested and upgraded
to meet travel demand, thus contributing to developing community-based tourism
of the locality (Photo taken in Cha Day hamlet)
Anyone who comes to Mai Chau will be
impressed with the winding roads embracing mountainside villages. Inner-field
and inter-hamlet roads are spacious and clean, with colourful flowers on both sides,
creating a special attraction to tourists. According to statistics, the
district has 608.23 km of roads (excluding national highways and provincial
roads), of which there are 64.69 km of asphalt roads, 333.77 km of concrete roads,
14.29 km of macadam roads, and 195.47 km of dirt roads. The district has seven
communes meeting criterion No.2 in terms of transport in building new-style
rural areas, namely Tong Dau, Chieng Chau, Mai Ha, Van Mai, Mai Hich, Xam Khoe
and Pa Co. Four communes fulfilled three criteria, three communes meet two
criteria and one commune meets one criterion.
The district People's Committee has
directed authorised agencies and People's Committees of communes to mobilise
resources from local people and businesses to implement the project of concreting
rural roads during 2017 - 2020. Up to now, the district has completed and opened
to traffic 10.49 km of 45 roads, while construction is underway on 0.7 km of 2
roads. The total investment is more than 5.4 billion VND, of which more than
3.2 billion VND came from the provincial budget, and over 2.2 billion VND from
the district budget.
The district has paid attention to
implementing disaster prevention and control and ensuring traffic safety, while
focusing on installing danger warning boards at landslide-risk areas and
bridges. The district maintains the implementation of the campaign "All people engage
in upgrading rural transport” in April and November to carry out the maintenance
and repair of rural roads. In 2020, locals have contributed over 115,000
workdays to construct rural roads./.
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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