Dong Van Karst Plateau has been honored as a top travel destination in the world in 2025.

Vietnam's Dong Van Karst Plateau Geopark has been honored as the world's leading cultural destination for 2025 at the World Travel Awards ceremony in Bahrain.

Young people are passionate about experiencing the roads on the Ha Giang Stone Plateau. (Source: Vietnamplus)

The World Travel Awards organizing committee has just honored Vietnam's Dong Van Karst Plateau Global Geopark as the " World's Leading Cultural Destination 2025, " during the awards ceremony in Bahrain last night, December 6.

Present at the ceremony to receive this title, Chairman of the People's Committee of Tuyen Quang province, Phan Huy Ngoc, shared that the title is not only a source of pride for the locality but also a recognition from the world of the efforts to preserve and promote the value of heritage.

This award serves as an important impetus for Tuyen Quang to continue pursuing its goal of developing tourism into a key economic sector in the coming years.

Named for the first time in the world-class cultural category, Dong Van Stone Plateau has affirmed its position and attraction from the efforts to preserve heritage values ​​not only of the locality, but also contributed to affirming the stature, international competitiveness and increasingly prominent position of Vietnamese tourism.

Previously, the Dong Van Karst Plateau Global Geopark, recognized by UNESCO in 2010, is a place that preserves over 550 million years of Earth's evolutionary history, encompassing diverse values ​​in geology, culture, and community life.

The karst system (a weathering phenomenon typical of limestone mountains eroded by flowing water), paleontological sites, caves, fossils and sedimentary layers piled up over hundreds of millions of years have created a rare geological wonder on the globe.

The natural beauty and life of the people in the rocky plateau have a special appeal to domestic and international tourists. (Source: Vietnamplus)

Moreover, Dong Van is also a cultural space where 17 ethnic minority groups of Vietnam live together, creating a unique and multi-layered cultural value system.

Indigenous architecture, rituals, folklore, music, language, and traditional crafts combine to form the distinctive cultural characteristics of each community.

In addition to Dong Van Karst Plateau Global Geopark, World Travel Awards also honored Vietnam as the World's Leading Heritage Destination .

Moc Chau and Tam Dao also won in the categories of World's Leading Regional Nature Destination and World's Leading Destination Town . In Phu Quoc, Bai Kem and Sunset Town respectively received awards for World's Leading Regional Beach and Iconic Tourist Destination.

Source: https://baoquocte.vn/cao-nguyen-da-dong-van-duoc-vinh-danh-la-diem-den-hang-dau-the-gioi-nam-2025-336945.html