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Thua Thien-Hue develops community-based tourism

Feasting the eyes with tree-lined tracks, typical Hue-style garden houses, ancient ruong houses, as well as the making of paper lotus and incense sticks are among a thousands of things that impress foreigners when engaging in a community-based tours in Thua Thien-Hue province.
Thua Thien-Hue develops community-based tourism ảnh 1Foreign visitors in a community-based tour of Thuy Bieu village, Hue city (Photo: baotainguyenmoitruong.vn)

Thua Thien-Hue (VNA) – Feasting the eyes with tree-lined tracks,typical Hue-style garden houses, ancient ruong houses, as well as the making ofpaper lotus and incense sticks are among a thousands of things that impressforeigners when engaging in a community-based tours in Thua Thien-Hue province.

Bestowed with stunning landscapes, cultural charm of an imperial city, anddiverse cultures of ethnic minorities, the central coastal locality boasts hugepotential to branch out community-based tourism.

However, the development of this model still lags behindexpectation as poor infrastructure, lack of attractive tours, and unqualifiedhuman resources make the community-based tourism lure only some 300,000 visitorsa year.

Local authorities have decided to carry out several policies to supportcommunity-based tourism until 2025. Accordingly, more than 30.8 trillion VND (1.33billion USD) will be earmarked to help 14 community-based tourism sites improveservices and infrastructure, 70 percent of which comes from the province’sbudget, and the remainder are corresponding funds of districts, township andHue city.

A maximum of 2 billion VND will be allocated to the construction of a roadconnecting national highway, provincial road, and district roads with onetourism site, while expenditure to upgrade and build new inner road at the siteis 1.5 billion USD.

About 200 million VND is set aside for the construction of a parking lot.

Besides, owner of each accommodation facility with three rooms or more issupported with a maximum 100 million VND to build new rooms, and 50 million VNDto repair the infrastructure.

In addition, money will be used to help local people restore folk art performances,traditional crafts and cuisine, as well as develop eco-tourism products.

The tourism sector will organise vocational training courses on community-basedtourism and foreign language training classes, helping local business ownersand tour guides provide good services to the visitors.-VNA
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