Dien Bien aims to develop sustainable tourism from its own potential and advantages.

Tourists visit the Dien Bien Phu Victory Monument. This bronze monument was built to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu Victory. (Photo: Hoang Tuyet/VNA) — Tourists visit the Dien Bien Phu Victory Monument. This bronze monument was built on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu Victory.

The national scientific conference “Dien Bien promotes potential and advantages for sustainable tourism development” will take place on March 17 in Dien Bien province. This is one of the activities within the framework of the National Tourism Year 2024 hosted by the locality, in coordination with the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and the National Political Publishing House Truth.

The workshop is a forum for managers, policy makers, and experts in the tourism industry to analyze and evaluate tourism potential and the effectiveness of tourism development resources in the overall economic and social picture of Dien Bien; evaluate the achieved results, clarify the "bottlenecks" in local tourism development; forecast the influencing factors, on that basis find solutions to promote and effectively exploit the core values of Dien Bien to develop tourism, attract and satisfy tourists, and orient the comprehensive, fast and sustainable development of Dien Bien tourism.

Local industry leaders assessed that the workshop plays an important role in the series of events of National Tourism Year 2024, with high expertise and orientation for sustainable tourism development for Dien Bien in the coming period.

With its location in the Northwest of the country, Dien Bien has majestic and poetic nature; heroic history, unique culture, fresh climate, and is the place where the quintessence of the Northwest region converges. This is an important potential and strength that helps Dien Bien rise strongly and make a breakthrough in tourism development with many unique tourism products, especially in areas such as historical - spiritual tourism; cultural tourism; resort tourism, entertainment, health care, etc.

unnamed (1).jpg — Dien Bien Phu Victory Monument, one of the symbols of Dien Bien tourism

Regarding historical and spiritual tourism, the heroic Dien Bien Phu Victory left Dien Bien a complex of Dien Bien Phu Battlefield relics with 45 component relics, with prominent relics such as Hill A1, Muong Thanh Bridge, Dien Bien Phu Campaign Command Headquarters, De Castries Bunker, Dien Bien Phu Victory Monument... These destinations attract a large number of visitors every year.

Along with that are the works: Martyrs Temple at Dien Bien Phu Battlefield, General Vo Nguyen Giap Memorial Area at Muong Phang Campaign Command, Dien Bien Phu Historical Victory Museum, Hoang Cong Chat Temple, National Martyrs Cemetery A1, Him Lam, Doc Lap, Tong Khao...

These are all favorable factors for Dien Bien to exploit historical and spiritual tourism products.

Regarding cultural tourism, by the end of 2023, Dien Bien has 33 ranked tangible cultural relics (including 1 special national relic, 14 national relics, 18 provincial relics). In addition, Dien Bien also has 18 cultural heritages included in the List of National Intangible Cultural Heritage by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, of which 2 heritages were recognized by UNESCO in the List of Representative Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity (Thai Xoe Art Heritage and Then Practice Heritage of the Tay, Nung, and Thai people in Vietnam).

In addition, Dien Bien also has the strength to develop community tourism, eco-tourism, cultural tourism, culinary tourism, discovery tourism... As a land of 19 ethnic groups, with many unique and attractive traditional cultural values in terms of customs, practices, production, activities, beliefs, the traditional festivals of Dien Bien are currently being preserved, honored, developed, becoming typical cultural features such as: Hoa Ban Festival, Thanh Ban Phu Festival...

Dien Bien land still preserves many unique traditional cultural features.

Dien Bien is also famous for its beautiful landscapes and caves, such as: Pa Khoang Lake, Huoi Pha Lake, Pa Thom Cave, Kho Chua La Cave, Pe Rang Ky Cave, Muong Nhe Nature Reserve, hot mineral water spots: U Va and Hua Pe, the landscape of Son La Hydroelectric Reservoir, Pha Din Pass - one of the four famous and attractive mountain passes of the Northwest region; Tua Chua Stone Plateau, A Pa Chai - the border junction, the westernmost point of the country...

With its own potential and advantages, Dien Bien tourism industry has many opportunities for sustainable development. The locality has become an attractive tourist destination in the Northwest region and the whole country; a place to educate the revolutionary tradition for the younger generation.

However, reality shows that Dien Bien tourism still has many "bottlenecks" that make the potentials not fully exploited and have not yet been exploited. Therefore, local leaders expect that the National Scientific Conference "Dien Bien promotes the potentials and advantages for sustainable tourism development" will help Dien Bien remove the "bottlenecks" with strong and effective solutions.

HQ (according to VietnamPlus)

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