Preserving and promoting intangible culture of ethnic minorities at risk of extinction to develop tourism

Currently, many localities are simultaneously preserving and exploiting the traditional cultural values of ethnic minorities in tourism development with the aim of implementing the Party's guidelines, policies and laws of the State on preserving and promoting the traditional culture of ethnic minorities associated with local tourism development, along with strengthening national solidarity, especially for young people through diverse activities such as: cultural activities, teaching folk songs, folk dances, teaching traditional crafts, cultural rituals imbued with the identity of each ethnic group; creating conditions for the community to exchange, have healthy entertainment from their traditional cultural values.

Thereby, both preserving cultural arts and propagating the policies and guidelines of the Party and the State in the work of preserving traditional culture, and promoting tourism development along with regular propaganda, integrating plans for the development of intangible culture and tourism into research programs, preserving and promoting intangible culture of ethnic minorities at risk of fading away. Restoring and preserving fine traditional cultures such as folk songs, folk dances, folk performing arts, traditional crafts that are at risk of fading away and losing the identity of ethnic groups. Promoting intangible culture of ethnic minorities and building a model for preserving and promoting traditional culture to ensure practicality, effectiveness, and suitability to ethnic customs and the actual situation of the locality, encouraging and motivating people to actively participate in activities to preserve the traditional cultural identity of the nation; promoting the role of the people as the main subject in replicating the model of preserving traditional culture. [caption id="attachment_1229232" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] Photo Collection[/caption] Including tasks such as researching, restoring, preserving, and promoting ethnic weaving, organizing investigations, surveys, and assessing the current status of ethnic weaving, then presenting the results achieved, difficulties, and limitations as a basis for selecting research and conservation locations. Processing data and materials, building questionnaires and reports on research results, restoring, preserving, and promoting the weaving profession; organizing the acceptance of reports and research topics on conservation and promotion; Supporting materials and props for teaching classes. After the end of the training session, props and materials are transferred to the locality for preservation and promotion in the community. Organizing photography, video recording, and making documentary films about the process of organizing training classes, printing DVDs for distribution to the community, promoting at the Museum and promoting on the Internet, the Museum's website, Youtube, and Facebook to serve the work of preserving and promoting traditional culture of ethnic minorities.

Thanh Tung