Hanoi (VNA) -  Community-based tourism development in ethnicminority areas helps diversify products and services in the sector for the centralprovince of Quang Binh, contributing to raising livelihoods and improving incomesfor locals in disadvantaged areas.

Among the more than 40 tourism products that the locality is exploiting, manycultural ones in ethnic minority and mountainous areas have initiallyattracted tourists.

Visiting Quang Binh, tourists will have a chance to explore pristine caves and landscapes, and learn about cultureof the very small Bru-Van Kieu and Ruc ethnic minority groups.

According to Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Ho An Phong, thelocality is home to two groups of Bru-Van Kieu and Chut. Each group has its own unique culturalvalue. These cultural values togetherwith natural resources play a crucial play in socio-economic development ingeneral and tourism development.

Tours to historical sites and experience culture of ethnicminorities on the legendary Truong Son-Ho Chi Minh Trail arealso typical tourism products of Quang Binh.

A number of unique cultural festivals, recognised as nationalintangible cultural heritages, have become cultural and tourist events,attracting the attention of tourists.


Last June, the provincial Party Committee issueda resolution on socio-economic development and preserving cultural identity,security and order in ethnic minority and mountainous areas in 2022 – 2025,with a vision to 2030.

Under the document, the locality will focus on developing tourism products providing an insight into local culture-history and those related to festival activities and folk art cultureof the locality, and forming community cultural tourist destinations.

Recently, the provincial Department of Tourism organiseda programme to survey tourism products in villages with majestic naturallandscapes, and ethnic minority areas that still retain many unique culturalvalues, with the aim of sketching out plans and measures to develop sustainabletourism development associated with preserving and upholding local traditionalcultural values.

According to Tran Xuan Cuong, Director of travel company Netin, to develop sustainable tourismin ethnic minority areas, it must rely on natural resources and communities.

In recent years, Netin has cooperated with local authorities and residents toprotect and sustainably exploit tourism resources on the basis of respectingnature and protecting the environment, he said.

Villagers engage tourism activities by providinglocal products, performing traditional musical instruments serving visitors,while the firm opens training courses instructing locals on how to cook and presentdishes and other relevant skills, Cuong said.

The fair sharing of benefits between businesses and local communities willencourage people to participate in the chain of sustainable tourismactivities, he added./.