(HBO) – Developing Mai Chau into a key tourism area and an attractive, hospitable and safe travel destination of Hoa Binh province is part of the targets set at the 26th Party Congress of the district for the 2020 - 2025 tenure. Dinh Duc Lan, member of the provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the district Party Committee, has granted an interview about the issue to the Hoa Binh Newspaper.
The beauty of Mai
Chau township in Mai Chau district.
The official said the district’s Party
organisation made a detailed plan for implementing the resolutions of the 13th
National Party Congress and the 17th provincial Party Congress.
As a result, Mai Chau has managed to tap into
agricultural, tourism, and service development potential. It is currently home
to nearly 20 tourism projects, some of which have high quality such as Avana
Resort, Mai Chau Lodge, Mai Chau Ecolodge, Ba Khan Village Resort, and Mai Chau
Hideaway Resort. Many community-based tourist sites have taken shape in Chieng
Chau, Na Phon, Son Thuy, Hang Kia, and Pa Co communes.
Despite significant achievements, Mai Chau
remains a mountainous district with numerous difficulties, Lan admitted.
In the time ahead, he said, the district will
push ahead with implementing the resolutions on the Party building and the
Politburo’s Directive No. 05 on stepping up the studying and following of late
President’s ideology, moral example and style. It will also improve local Party
organisations’ leadership and combatant capacity so that the Party’s
resolutions will be carried out quickly and fruitfully.
In particular, Mai Chau will boost coordination
with relevant parties to assess potential and advantages, conduct planning, and
attract resources for infrastructure development, especially transport
facilities linking with tourist attractions. It will encourage investors to
build high-end hotels, resorts, entertainment centres, and restaurants to serve
travellers.
Besides, it will facilitate local communities’
engagement in tourism activities; propose mechanisms for supporting
disadvantaged areas, including remote areas and the communes located in the
vicinity of Hoa Binh Lake; develop agriculture in tandem with tourism products;
and effectively carry out social security policies to improve people’s material
and spiritual life.
Authorities will also instruct tourism service
providers to improve service quality; protect landscapes and the environment;
create cultural tourism products linked with local festivals, craft villages,
and communities; and build up Mai Chau as a hospitable destination with which
all visitors are satisfied when setting foot here, according to the
Secretary./.
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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