For sustainable development of Sa Pa tourism

Uncle Ho wanted Sa Pa to become a cultural tourist destination.

From a rugged, wild mountainous area when discovered by the Indochina Geography Department's Expedition in late 1903, Sa Pa has hidden within itself a beautiful, majestic natural landscape, floating in the clouds; the mountains are top-notch, the rivers are at their source and the climate is fresh, cool, and diverse.

When visiting Lao Cai province in 1958, Uncle Ho advised: Sa Pa can be designed with a road to become a tourist and training place for the province and the whole country.

Following Uncle Ho's advice, many generations of people who love Sa Pa, for Sa Pa, especially the ethnic people here, with their hands and minds, have worked enthusiastically, overcoming difficulties to build Sa Pa into a leading cultural and natural tourist destination in the world .

Stone Church - The most famous architectural symbol of Sa Pa.

Sa Pa is blessed with many beautiful landscapes by nature. Unlike other tourist areas with splendid beauty but stuffy and crowded, Sa Pa possesses a rustic beauty combined with the breath of the mountains and forests, giving visitors a feeling of closeness and comfort.

Ms. Lam Hai Yen (a tourist from Khanh Hoa province) said: "I have been to many places but I really like the atmosphere in Sa Pa. The scenery is beautiful, the ethnic costumes are extremely unique. In Sa Pa, the culture of the Thai and Mong ethnic groups makes tourists very excited."

Flower cars attract attention on the streets of Sa Pa.

Coming to Sa Pa, the majestic natural scenery with Silver waterfall, Love waterfall like a white silk strip flowing down from the sky; is a poetic picture with Ham Rong mountain, Muong Hoa valley hidden in the early morning mist.

In particular, visitors to Sa Pa cannot miss the opportunity to conquer Fansipan peak 3,143m, known as the "roof of Indochina".

In front of the majestic scenery of Hoang Lien Son mountain range, you will feel like you are immersed in the sky and earth and experience the rare feeling of walking on clouds.

Looking down from above, the mountain and forest landscape is like a watercolor painting, winding trails, and rays of sunlight sparkling through the clouds creating magical patches of light and dark.

Resolution 18 creates a boost for tourism development

Mr. Phan Dang Toan - Secretary of Sa Pa town, Lao Cai province shared: "With Resolution 18, the Lao Cai Provincial Party Executive Committee has set out a very specific development goal and direction for Sa Pa town.

That is, to build Sa Pa to develop comprehensively and synchronously, with economic growth rate among the top in the province.

By 2030, it will become a type III urban city and an international-class national resort center with a modern, synchronous infrastructure and service system.

Diverse, unique, high-quality, branded tourism products, attractive to domestic and international visitors; a bridge for cultural exchange between the Northwest region and the region and internationally; a center for medicinal herb production and development of clean agriculture and organic agriculture of the province.

Fansipan peak in summer day.

Specifically, in the period of 2021 - 2025, Sa Pa strives to achieve an average economic growth rate (GRDP) of over 15%/year; total social investment capital of over 78,000 billion VND; average annual multidimensional poverty reduction rate of 6%.

By 2025, the average GRDP per capita will reach 160 million VND/year; average income per capita will reach 92 million VND/year; State budget revenue in the area will reach over 2,100 billion VND.

The total number of tourists to the area reached over 6.5 million; total retail sales of goods and service revenue reached 13,200 billion VND.

The urbanization rate reached over 55%; the rate of communes meeting national standards for new rural areas reached 50%; the population reached 74,000 people; the rate of schools meeting national standards reached 79%; the rate of domestic waste collection in urban areas reached 90%; and the forest coverage rate reached 67%.

Strive for the period 2026 - 2030, Sa Pa's GRDP to reach an average of over 14%/year; total social investment capital to reach over 154,000 billion VND; the average annual multidimensional poverty reduction rate is 4%.

By 2030, the average GRDP per capita will be 320 million VND/year; average income per capita will be 150 million VND/year; State budget revenue in the area will reach over 3,600 billion VND; total number of tourists to the area will reach over 9.0 million.

Vision to 2050, strive to build and develop Sa Pa city to meet the criteria of a class I urban area, a smart city with a complete and modern infrastructure system; become an eco-tourism resort center meeting national and international tourism standards".

Sapa is in the Top 50 most beautiful towns in the world.

Sa Pa town will focus on removing bottlenecks in planning work, at the same time completing and submitting for approval 5 zoning plans, detailed planning of the commune center, planning of the 110ha core area, planning of concentrated residential areas to serve as a basis for attracting investment and implementing projects;

Especially to remove many difficulties and obstacles in land management, construction order, granting land use right certificates, and handling cases of houses on land that are not suitable for land use purposes.

Focusing on site clearance is considered an important "key" to speed up project implementation, gradually completing traffic and urban infrastructure, thereby creating a driving force to attract investment and promote socio-economic development.

Source: https://www.baogiaothong.vn/de-du-lich-sa-pa-phat-trien-ben-vung-192231121211256771.htm