(HBO) – The organising board of the festival of typical community-based tourism villages in Vietnam for 2017 on August 30 convened a conference to discuss preparations for the event in Mai Chau district.
Nguyen Van Chuong, Vice Chairman of the Hoa Binh
provincial People’s Committee and head of the organising board, chaired the
conference.
Scene of the conference.
The conference adopted a resolution
on establishing the festival organising board; a schedule for the festival
while assigning tasks to members and planning expenditure.
Accordingly, the festival in Mai
Chau is scheduled for September 29-October 1 with the participation of over 600
delegates from 14 outstanding community-based tourism villages in the northwest
region and some villages from the central and southern regions.
Major activities during the
festival include art performances, a traditional costume show, a contest on
tourism introduction, a showcase on tourist cultural products and a traditional
craft performance, a photo exhibition on Hoa Binh and expanded northwestern
provinces, a cuisine competition, a seminar on orientations, solutions on
sustainable development of community-based tourism forms in the northwest./.
Hoa Binh province has carried out multiple programmes and initiatives to revive its cultural heritage which has gradually fallen into oblivion through the ebbs and flows of history.
The most prominent and defining feature in the prehistoric era of Hoa Binh is the Hoa Binh Culture. The Culture was first discovered in Hoa Binh. The significant prehistoric culture represents not only Vietnam but also Southeast Asia and southern China. Through excavations of cave sites in the limestone regions of Hoa Binh, French archaeologist M. Colani introduced the world to a "Stone Age in Hoa Binh province – Northern Vietnam" in 1927. On January 30, 1932, the First Congress of Far Eastern Prehistorians, held in Hanoi, officially recognised the Hoa Binh Culture.
Known as the "Land of Epic History”, Hoa Binh province, the gateway to Vietnam’s northwest, boasts a strategic location and a unique cultural tapestry woven by its ethnic minority communities.
The People's Committee of Luong Son District recently held a ceremony to receive the certificate recognizing Sau Communal House in Thanh Cao Commune as a provincial-level historical and cultural site.
Recognising the importance of cultural heritage preservation in protecting and promoting the value system of Vietnamese culture, and serving socio-economic development in the new period, Party committees and local administrations in Hoa Binh province have identified it as a key task in the cultural development strategy. The province has been making efforts in mobilising resources, creating consensus among people and engaging ethnic communities in preserving and promoting cultural identity.
Hoa Binh province has captured growing attention both domestically and internationally for its distinctive cultural heritage and rich history. Most notably, it has been renowned for its famous Hoa Binh culture, considered the cradle of ancient Vietnamese civilisation. Looking ahead to significant milestones in 2025 and the 140th anniversary of province establishment in 2026, Hoa Binh Newspaper presents a comprehensive overview of the province's development across economic, social, cultural, tourism, and security domains.
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