Bac Giang tourism with bright colors
Focusing on tourism infrastructure building
Among the landscapes in the province, Tay Yen Tu Spiritual – Ecotourism Complex in Tuan Mau commune (Son Dong district) drew the biggest number of tourists in 2019 with 160,000 arrivals. By a click to Google searching for this landscape, any one can see numerous information to promote and introduce about this attractive destination.
The visitors at Tay Yen Tu Spiritual – Ecotourism complex in Son Dong district. |
According to the Operation Manager of Tay Yen Tu Spiritual – Ecotourism Complex Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan many items were completed in early 2019 such as Ha and Thuong (Lower and Upper) pagodas, cable car route, square area, spring viewed restaurant... Now several projects are put under construction such as 500 guest capacity restaurant, Tu Dai garden with water fountain shape.
“In 2020, we will build the hotel system, visitor center, shopping mall, entertainment places, landscape lake...with total investment of some 500 billion VND (21.5 million USD),” Ngan said.
The tourism development solutions were synchronously and drastically implemented in line with the provincial resolutions, programmes and plans in 2019. Many projects in the tourism sites were added, completed to form new tourism products, helping draw visitors.
In 2019, Bac Giang province welcomed some 2 million tourist arrivals, making 33 percent year on year increase, including 29,000 foreign visitors (up 79 percent) and over 1.97 million domestic tourists (up 32 percent). The revenue from the accommodation, travel and services relating to tourism was estimated at 760 billion VND (32.8 million USD). |
Remarkably, the tourism planning and investment have been further focused. The competent departments and sectors have actively consulted the provincial People’s Committee to lure the investment projects, verify, approve and distribute the capital to the general urban planning projects as well as make the detail construction plan for the tourism sites...
Several big projects have been constructed such as Viet Yen golf course, tourism site of Northern cultural ancient village in Tien Son commune (Viet Yen district), hi-quality hotel and commercial business center in Bac Giang city, Khe Hang Dau Ecotourism site (Yen Dung district)...
Developing community based tourism
In the middle of 2019, the provincial People’s Committee approved for the Plan to support the community tourism development in 2019 and 2020 at Na O hamlet, An Lac commune (Son Dong district), Ven village, Xuan Luong commune (Yen The district) and orchards in Luc Ngan district. This is the cultural and ecological tourism which are organized, managed by the community and local people to get benefit.
Now, visiting Na O hamlet, tourists can enjoy the primitive and magnificent natural beauty of Khe Ro landscape, study the traditional cultural lifestyle and custom and experience the local life.
Vinh Nghiem pagoda (Yen Dung district) attracts numerous visitors. |
At Ven village, the visitors will have chance to pick each bud of teas then dry them; join the folk games and taste the unique cuisine from the ethnic minority groups.
According to the Chairman of the People’s Committee in Xuan Luong commune Than Nhan Khuyen, Than Truong Cooperative and several households invested to build many stilt houses in Xuan Lung – Thac Nga tourism complex to serve the tourists’ demand for entertainment, experiment, living and accommodation.
In spite of new establishment, many visitors in and outside the province flocked to the destination to enjoy the special experience which is a good signal for the community tourism development.
The Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism has recently coordinated with Luc Ngan district People’s Committee to survey the local fruit cultivation area together with many experts at the universities and departments under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and businesses to develop the orchard tourism.
The district has nearly 28,000 hectare of various fruit cultivation which is a great potential and advantage for the locality to connect the orchard and ecotourism development to attract the visitors.
Cong Doanh
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