(HBO) - For a long time, the beautiful nature and unique cultural identity of Mai Chau district in northern Hoa Binh province have been named on the national tourist map.
Mai Chau
preserves the traditional brocade weaving of the Thai ethnic group,
contributing to the locality’s tourism development.
The US-basedBusiness Insider magazine listed it as an indigenous
culture worth exploring, and one of the ten tourist destinations that give visitors interesting experiences.
The natural beauty and the Thai ethnic people’s culture fascinate visitors and holds their footsteps.
From the top of Thung Khe pass, tourists can enjoy the dreamy beauty of Vang village
with Thai people’s stilt houses, and green
fields lined up like chessboards hidden in white mists. Mai Chauis sobeautifulallyearround.
Mai Chau
district’s authorities have taken a series of measures to fully tap potential
for tourism development.
The locality has focused on building tourism development plans, preserving
cultural values and traditional handicrafts such as brocade weaving.
Attention has been paid to attracting investment for diversifying tourism
products to meet the demand of visitors.
The district is now home to 15 tourism and trade projects with total registered
capital of over 1.17 trillion VND. A number of them are operating effectively, including
eco-tourism and resort Ecolodge, Mat Troi eco-tourism site, and Mai Chau Hideaway, helping to attracting
more and more holiday-makers to the locality.
The average
number of visitors to Mai Chau increases 3.23 percent a year while the flow of
international arrivals rises 21.94 percent per year. The locality’s annual average
tourism revenue is estimated at 103 billion VND.
In its tourism development strategy, Mai Chau has set to become an attractive,
friendly and safe tourist destination by 2025, striving to realise its goal of tourist
arrivals averagely increasing by 9.7, and revenue from tourism activities
rising by 11.5 percent per year.
The district has just been recognised as a provincial-level tourism area./.
Hoa Binh has taken measures, focusing on removing barriers in terms of mechanism, policy, infrastructure, and upgrading technical infrastructure facilities serving tourism and the quality of human resources, to promote tourism development in the Hoa Binh Lake area.
Over the past time, Da Bac has deployed measures to lure more domestic and foreign visitors to the locality, aiming to turn tourism into the district’s economic spearhead.
Covering an area of over 52,000 hectares spanning districts of Mai Chau, Tan Lac, Cao Phong, Da Bac, and Hoa Binh City, Hoa Binh lake has strong potential for tourism development. In recent years, thanks to the attention of local Party Committees and authorities as well as support from international organisations, the advantages of tourism in the lake area have been utilised.
Mai Chau is a mountainous district and home to many ethnic groups such as Thai, Muong, Kinh, Mong, Dao, and Tay with distinctive cultural identities, creating a diverse and unique cultural treasure. Aware of its advantages, the district has paid attention to the preservation and promotion of ethnic groups’ cultural values so that culture will become a leverage for tourism and contribute to socio-economic development and life quality improvement.
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