The Cultural Heritage Tourism Week for Ethnic Minority Groups in thenorthern mountainous province of Ha Giang are taking place in the fourdistricts of Quan Ba, Yen Minh, Meo Vac and Dong Van from November22-26.
The event aims to honour national intangiblecultural heritage in Ha Giang and promote the province’s unique culturalidentities, tourism products and potential to local and foreignvisitors.
The cultural week will provide special artperformances and the province’s traditional cuisine, as well as offeringfolk games, a fire dancing festival of the Pa Then ethnic minoritygroup and the drum dancing of the Tay ethnic minority group.
Tourists will also learn how to weave local brocade products, as wellas visit the province’s well-known and beautiful sites in the Dong VanStone Plateau – a member of the Global Network of National Geoparks.
Ha Giang is located in the far north of Vietnam with aborderline of over 274 kilometres, an advantage to develop the localeconomy and lure tourists, both domestic and foreign.
The province has for long known as a tourist destination with richnatural resources, splendid scenery, and cultural and historic relicssuch the Khau Vai “love market”, Quan Ba “heaven’s gate” and Ma Pi Lengpass.
It is home to 22 ethnic minority groupsincluding H’Mong, Lo Lo, Pu Peo and Dao, each of them has their owncultural characters which are mysterious for tourists to experience.
Authorities in Ha Giang province have made a range of policies tocreate an open mechanism attracting business and tourism. Preferentialtreatments and low interest loans are also provided to developcommunity-based tourism.
In 2012, the provincereceived almost 418,000 tourists and raked in 327 billion VND (15.3million USD). During the first nine months of this year, more than318,000 visitors came to Ha Giang, around 30 percent of them foreigners.
Ha Giang province aims by 2015 to greet nearly1.9 million visitors including 340,000 foreigners, earning 2 trillionVND (94 million USD).
The figures in 2020 areexpected to reach 3 million visitors, 650,000 foreigners and revenue ofover 3 trillion VND (141 million USD).-VNA
The event aims to honour national intangiblecultural heritage in Ha Giang and promote the province’s unique culturalidentities, tourism products and potential to local and foreignvisitors.
The cultural week will provide special artperformances and the province’s traditional cuisine, as well as offeringfolk games, a fire dancing festival of the Pa Then ethnic minoritygroup and the drum dancing of the Tay ethnic minority group.
Tourists will also learn how to weave local brocade products, as wellas visit the province’s well-known and beautiful sites in the Dong VanStone Plateau – a member of the Global Network of National Geoparks.
Ha Giang is located in the far north of Vietnam with aborderline of over 274 kilometres, an advantage to develop the localeconomy and lure tourists, both domestic and foreign.
The province has for long known as a tourist destination with richnatural resources, splendid scenery, and cultural and historic relicssuch the Khau Vai “love market”, Quan Ba “heaven’s gate” and Ma Pi Lengpass.
It is home to 22 ethnic minority groupsincluding H’Mong, Lo Lo, Pu Peo and Dao, each of them has their owncultural characters which are mysterious for tourists to experience.
Authorities in Ha Giang province have made a range of policies tocreate an open mechanism attracting business and tourism. Preferentialtreatments and low interest loans are also provided to developcommunity-based tourism.
In 2012, the provincereceived almost 418,000 tourists and raked in 327 billion VND (15.3million USD). During the first nine months of this year, more than318,000 visitors came to Ha Giang, around 30 percent of them foreigners.
Ha Giang province aims by 2015 to greet nearly1.9 million visitors including 340,000 foreigners, earning 2 trillionVND (94 million USD).
The figures in 2020 areexpected to reach 3 million visitors, 650,000 foreigners and revenue ofover 3 trillion VND (141 million USD).-VNA
