Children visit Hai Dang Farm in Thanh Tri district (Photo: Kinhtedothi.vn) Hanoi (VNA) – Hanoi boasts good potential inagricultural tourism, or agritourism, with its 18 suburban districts and townships, which is expected to help the capital city diversifyits tourism products and promote growth of the suburban localities.
High growth prospects
Experts held that agritourism has high opportunities to growwhen traditional tourism products have been exploited for a long time andtourists’ demand for new tourism experience is rising.
Agritourism is expected to bring entirely new inspiration for travellerswho will have chances to experience the daily life of farmers in naturalenvironment. Moreover, agritourism is hoped to create a new livelihood forrural people by creating new jobs, while restoring and promoting traditionalvalues and improving the living conditions for local community.
Currently, agritourism products in Hanoi mostly focus on exploiting the wetrice cultivation and culture of the northern delta region, along with thecombination of agritourism and cultural heritage and craft village. Rural farmshave been developed serving school tourism activities and weekend vacations inoutskirt areas and vincinity.
Hanoi has seen the formation of agricultural eco-farms combining withtourism and education, with typical examples like the Ban Rom ecotourism area in Quang Tien commune,Soc Son district, Dong Que Farm in Ba Vi district, Van An education farm inThanh Tri district. The sites provide visitors with experience in farming, harvesting and enjoyingagricultural products themselves right at the sites.
In Thanh Tri,Hoai Duc, Dong Anh, Gia Lam, Soc Son and Thach That districts, the number ofagricultural farms combining with tourism is rising, attracting a large numberof visitors.
The development of agricultural farms in combination with schooltourism has opened up a new growth prospect for many outskirt areas of Hanoi.
At the same time, traditional craft villages of Hanoi havebecome increasing popular among tourists thanks to their time-honoured culturalvalues and creativity of artisans. Ancient trade villages in suburban localitieshave been attractive to travelers who wish to experience local life.
Wakening potential
Despite its great potential and advantages, Hanoi’sagritourism growth has still remained modest with small-scaled and similarmodels. Agritourism products have yet to create their unique attractiveness and own trademarks.
Insiders held that in order to promote agritourism development, it is necessaryto design a master plan for its growth with specific standards. The city shouldsupport the building of promotion programmes for agritourism, ensuring that itoperates around the year in all seasons, while giving trainings for labourersinvolving in the sector.
Aware of the high potential of agritourism and its role in the diversification of rural livelihoods and the improvement of living conditions in rural areas, many suburban localities of Hanoi have paid greatattention to this kind of tourism.
The development of agricultural farms in combination with schooltourism has opened up a new growth prospect for many outskirt areas of Hanoi.
At the same time, traditional craft villages of Hanoi havebecome increasing popular among tourists thanks to their time-honoured culturalvalues and creativity of artisans. Ancient trade villages in suburban localitieshave been attractive to travelers who wish to experience local life.
Wakening potential
Despite its great potential and advantages, Hanoi’sagritourism growth has still remained modest with small-scaled and similarmodels. Agritourism products have yet to create their unique attractiveness and own trademarks.
Insiders held that in order to promote agritourism development, it is necessaryto design a master plan for its growth with specific standards. The city shouldsupport the building of promotion programmes for agritourism, ensuring that itoperates around the year in all seasons, while giving trainings for labourersinvolving in the sector.
Aware of the high potential of agritourism and its role in the diversification of rural livelihoods and the improvement of living conditions in rural areas, many suburban localities of Hanoi have paid greatattention to this kind of tourism.
Dan Phuong district, the first district of Hanoi that hasbeen recognised as a new-style rural area, is trying to tap its advantages in a convenient travel system anda thick network of cultural relic and heritage sites as well as a large numberof traditional craft villages, to develop tourism.
Tran Duc Hai, Secretary of the Party Committee of Dan Phuongsaid that tourism is a new development orientation of the district basing onthe local resources, including those in cultural, historical and architecturevalues. With a large farming area and flower fields, Dan Phuong is confident that its agritourism can prosper.
Over the years, Hanoi's tourism sector has built and implemented various plans toexpand tourism products and encourage tourism development, along with effortsin developing human resources for the sector and integrating tourism modelsin the building of new-style rural areas in districts.
Meanwhile, the capital city has worked hard to build agritourismproducts and improve other tourism products in rural areas, which has become animportant way to promote agritourism growth of the city.
Dang Huong Giang, Director of the municipal Tourism Department said that in the2016-2020 period, the department coordinated with relevant agencies to organise44 training courses for 8,900 rural residents in providing tourism services, whileimplementing a pilot programme to build logos for Hanoi's tourism products, for example Bat Trang ceramic trade village and Van Phuc silk village.
Currently, the department is drafting a plan for agritourism development incombination with new-style rural area building in the 2021-2025 period, aimingto boost the growth of the sector and change the face of its outskirt areas,said Giang./.
VNA
