(HBO) – Hoa Binh province will capitalise on its advantages to develop local tourism into a spearhead economic sector. Besides, it aims to turn itself into an attractive destination with various outstanding tourism products, and a large tourism hub in the northern midland and mountainous area.
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Hoa Binh Lake attracts huge crowds of visitors.
Bestowed with stunning landscapes and diverse ethnic cultures, Hoa Binh has huge
potential to branch out tourism. In the past years, the province has issued an
array of mechanisms and policies to capitalise on local strengths for tourism
development.
After five years implementing Resolution No.10-NQ/TU dated December 30, 2016 of
the Standing Board of the provincial Party Committee on tourism development
until 2020 with a vision until 2030, the province has attained several
significant achievements.
Hoa Binh has lured more than 4.1 trillion VND (178.58 million USD) for local
tourism. Particularly, construction of the 30-kilometre road 345 running from
Hoa Binh city through Binh Thanh and Thung Nai communes in Cao Phong district
to Suoi Hoa commune in Tan Lac district was completed, opening huge
opportunities to attract investments in Hoa Binh Lake area.
Many promotion activities have been held to help individuals and organisations
to land investments in local tourism. Currently, the province is housing 72
effective tourism projects with total registered capital of nearly 20.6 trillion
VND, accounting for 12.2 percent of total projects in the locality.
Hoa Binh Lake has met several criteria to become a national tourism site, while
Mai Chau district is being developed into a tourism site at provincial level.
Investors have continued showing their interests in tourism projects in Lac
Thuy, Kim Boi and Lac Son districts and Hoa Binh city.
The provincial Party Committee has directed competent authorities to expand
market, build impressive tourism products, as well as improve human resources
quality with a view to fully tapping local potential to develop eco-tourism and
resort tourism.
State management in tourism has been intensified, and tourism products have
better met demand of the tourists, helping increase tourism revenue.
The number of tourists and gaining from tourism grew over 10 percent each year.
The figures only contracted in 2020 due to the impacts of the COVID-19
pandemic.
To boost effectiveness of tourism development
in line with green and sustainable growth, the standing board of the provincial
Party Committee promulgated Conclusion No.37 dated January 29, 2021 to review
the five-year implementation of Resolution No. 10 on tourism development to
2020, with a vision to 2030.
The Conclusion states orientations, goals and
tasks in the field, particularly a target of attracting over 6.3 trillion VND
in tourism investment, build tourism infrastructure, develop high-quality
products, and have 6,000 rooms in the province’s accommodation establishments
in the 2021-25.
The province has set a target of welcoming 4.9
holidaymakers by 2025, including 1 million foreigners. Tourism activities will rake
in about 5.4 trillion VND, creating jobs for around 26,000 workers, nearly
9,000 of them obtain professional skills in the sector.
Hoa Binh Lake is projected to meet
requirements for a national tourism site by 2025.
As COVID-19 developments remain complicated,
the province aims to greet 3.4 million visitors this year (200 of them
foreigners), earning about 2.9 trillion VND. The figures are projected to hit
3.76 million (660 foreigners), and 3.4 trillion VND by 2022, respectively.
In the 2026-30 period, the province strives to
lure in excess of 11.9 trillion VND in investment, improve quality of products
and its tourism brand, devise new typical products and have over 10,000 rooms
in accommodation establishments. It also eyes welcoming 7.3 million tourists (2
million foreigners) and earning 11 trillion VND from tourism. Some 47,000
workers are expected to join in the field as Hoa Binh reservoir will become a
national site and tourism a spearhead sector.
Deputy Director of the provincial Department
of Culture, Sports and Tourism Luu Huy Linh said the province is sparing no
efforts to disseminate Resolution No.08 of the Politburo and the Programme of
Action No. 15 of the standing board of the provincial Party Committee on
tourism development, along with a plan to realise the programme.
It is working to develop tourism sustainably
in combination with conservation and development of cultural identity.
The province will work to diversify tourism
products in keeping with culture and strengths of each locality and the
national target programme on building new-style rural areas, including resort
and medical tourism, community-based tourism and night economy.
Hoa Binh views Hanoi as a key source of
tourists and will gradually expand markets to other localities and overseas.
The province is to arrange personnel to carry out the resolution in an
effective manner in an attempt to turn itself into an attractive destination
with typical products.
Local authorities will continue to steer the
building and implementation of plans and projects on tourism development, while
reviewing, supplementing and issuing specific policies and mechanisms to create
a legal framework for investment in tourism development.
Communications will be bolstered to raise
public awareness of preserving and promoting cultural identity and protecting resources
for tourism development.
Hoa Binh is seeking concerted measures to
support struggling tourism firms as the pandemic remains unpredictable at home
and abroad; and enhance cooperation in the sphere with other localities,
especially Hanoi, HCM City and foreign ones./.
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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