(HBO) – Hoa Binh province’s Luong Son district has asked businesses, tourist destinations and worshipping places to ensure environmental sanitation and firefighting.
Local authorities have
also stepped up their supervisions over cultural, sport and tourism activities,
and inspections over COVID-10 prevention and control of tourist sites, business
establishments and worshipping places. They have coordinated with the provincial museum to review the list of relic
sites in the locality.
Photo: Phuong Hoang Golf course in Lam Son commune (Luong Son district) remains
a magnet for domestic and foreign tourists
Luong Son attracted 24,176 tourists, including 11,562 foreigners, in the first
quarter of this year, up 1.7 times from the figure recorded in the same period
in 2020. The holidaymakers mainly opted leisure, eco-, entertainment and sport
tourism. The locality pocketed some 68.4 billion VND from the tourism sector
during the three months./.
Located in the northern part of Lac Thuy district, with a temperate climate and fertile soil, Phu Thanh commune has great potential and advantages in growing tea. The long-standing experience, combined with strict adherence to organic farming practices in the tea gardens, ensures that the dried tea products from Phu Thanh and Lac Thuy as a whole are sold out immediately upon production, providing a stable and prosperous life for the local people.
Amid efforts to streamline the administrative apparatus, Hoa Binh province has intensified measures to address challenges in land clearance, resettlement support, and infrastructure investment, aiming to speed up the progress of key projects.
Hoa Binh province has posted an unprecedented economic growth rate of 12.76% in the first quarter of 2025, marking its highest quarterly performance to date and positioning it as the second fastest-growing locality in the country, trailing only Bac Giang province.
Under current regulations, products in the One Commune – One Product (OCOP) programme that are rated three stars or higher must undergo re-evaluation every three months. However, in reality, some of these products fail to consistently meet the required standards, raising concerns about the sustainability of their OCOP certification. This underscores the urgent need for producers to enhance product quality and gradually develop their OCOP products into strong, marketable brands.
In 2019, the "One Commune, One Product" (OCOP) programme took root in Yen Thuy district. At the time, local products lacked branding, packaging, and labels, mostly sold in raw form through small-scale distribution. However, amid these challenges was a crucial advantage: farmers' willingness to change, experiment with standardised processes, and learn to package and price products based on value, not just weight.
Once barely visible on the northern region’s tourism map, Hoa Binh province welcomed 4.3 million visitors last year, generating a tourism revenue of nearly 4.74 trillion VND (USD), according for 31% of its GDRP. Beyond mere statistics, the milestone demonstrates that tourism and services have become new growth engines for the locality.
