(HBO) - On April 29th, at the stadium of Quang Tien commune, the People's Committee of Hoa Binh city held a program of paragliding experience in the series of activities to stimulate tourism in Hoa Binh province in 2022. Mr. Nguyen Van. Toan, the Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, the leaders from the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the appropriate authorities and businesses working in tourism activities with a large number of tourists and people inside and outside the province attended it.
A lot of tourists and people were
there to see and experience paragliding with the starting point from Vien Nam
Mountain.
Being organized on the occasion
of the 47th anniversary of the liberation of the South and reunification of the
country; 132 years of Uncle Ho's birthday; the event to host the tournament of
terrain cycling in the program of the 31st Southeast Asian Games and responding
to the theme "Hoa Binh, the safe tourism destination - full experience”, the
program of paragliding was to promote and test a new sport and tourism
activity, contributing to creating a unique highlight and creating a supply chain
of tourism products with high quality, new, unique and attractive criteria, and
at the same time it helped honor the local cultural identity, attracting
tourists to Hoa Binh city.
The people are eagerly welcoming
visitors to experience paragliding from the top of Vien Nam mountain to the
successful landing point.
The special art program "The
Cloudy sky of Muong area”.
The small tourists are ready to
take part in an exciting paragliding journey.
The visitors are experiencing a
safe paragliding journey with the supervision of the professional coach.
Within the framework of the
program, the visitors participated in paragliding experience with the starting
point from Vien Nam mountain and landing at Set field, Doan Ket village 1.
During the flight, the visitors were well supported by the pilot, ensuring
safety until the end of the experience. The sidelines of the main activity was
the paragliding performance, the tourists and the people also enjoyed a special
art program with the theme "the Cloudy sky of Muong area”, "Celebrating the
reunification festival”. They also visited the booths introducing the local
products, OCOP products, cheered and participated in the traditional sports
competitions of nation.
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.