Towards the 10th anniversary of Trang An becoming a World Heritage Site

The 10th anniversary of Trang An Scenic Landscape Complex being recognized by UNESCO as a World Cultural and Natural Heritage is a major event of the province. It is forecasted that the number of tourists coming to Ninh Binh will increase, so many tourist areas, destinations, and tourism service providers have developed detailed plans to organize and serve the people thoughtfully and safely.

Hang Mua tourist area is an attractive tourist destination in the core area of Trang An Scenic Landscape Complex. With the form of eco-tourism combined with mountain climbing sports , each year the unit welcomes nearly 300,000 visitors to visit and experience. To prepare to welcome tourists to attend events in the series of activities celebrating the 10th anniversary of Trang An being recognized by UNESCO as a World Cultural and Natural Heritage, the unit has reviewed all facilities, repaired and upgraded; checked the security system, fire prevention and fighting to ensure good operation. Staff and workers are always maintained stable, good professional skills and focus on cleaning, taking care of the landscape, decorating the landscape, campus, ready to welcome guests.

The representative of the Hang Mua Tourist Area Management Board said: The highlight of the 2024 tourist season is to develop four-season tour packages: spring festival, summer lotus viewing, autumn mountain climbing to see golden rice fields, winter resort experience... Combined with sightseeing and experience, it is to provide all accommodation, dining, entertainment services in the tourist area at a cost-effective cost. In addition to maintaining the quality of existing services, the unit is flexible in adjusting prices and categories of resort packages; supporting shuttle bus services. With the spirit of being ready for the province's big event, travel service companies are also actively introducing and promoting tours, routes and launching many discount programs, product promotions for tourist groups; committing to publicly listed service prices to create sympathy and attract customers.

As a pioneer and dedicated enterprise in intra-provincial tours, especially experiential tours and cultural tours, as soon as it grasped the plan to organize a series of activities to celebrate the 10th anniversary, Ninh Binh Tourism Service Joint Stock Company received a large number of customers booking tours to tourist destinations in the province thanks to the construction of new tour products in the direction of combining unique routes, designing short-term tours, saving costs to bring visitors the opportunity to enjoy the beautiful landscape and diverse cultural colors of Ninh Binh land.

Mr. Hoang Binh Minh, Director of Ninh Binh Tourism Service Joint Stock Company, said that the number of visitors is forecast to increase dramatically during the Anniversary celebration taking place at the end of April. The company has prepared human resources and built new attractive products; notably developing a new tour called "Muong tours - Thien Ha Cave", while increasing the use of social networking platforms and digital transformation in tourism to introduce promotional programs, continuously update information about the series of anniversary activities, and promote the beautiful image of the province to domestic and foreign tourists. On the other hand, the company will also strengthen the connection with other tourism and travel agencies to support each other in development.

Ms. Duong Thi Thanh, President of Ninh Binh Tourism Association informed: Along with the mobilization and response work; The Association has a promotion plan through the VITM International Fair which will be held in mid-April 2024. From there, build new tours to introduce visitors to Trang An. At the same time, assign specific tasks to each unit with a long-term development plan.

For the accommodation sector, in addition to upgrading the quality of room service, we also focus on investing and linking to entertainment items such as culinary services and swimming pools for visitors, focusing on renovating the green tree system on campus, creating a green experience space for visitors to keep up with the trend of green tourism and green transformation.

For the food service business, the first requirement is food hygiene and safety; selling at the correct listed price. In particular, this is also an opportunity for many local specialties to be promoted to tourists from all over. Restaurants have combined with exhibitors to widely sell local specialties, aiming to reach tourists everywhere, at all times.

In addition, the Association has also organized training courses, fostered and updated knowledge for tour guides, coordinated with tourism service businesses to organize training courses, fostered rescue skills; applied green transformation in tourism, built models of plastic waste-free tourism and set scoring criteria for competing units.

Along with the relevant departments and agencies, many people living in the heritage area also actively learn about activities and tourist attractions to guide visitors; becoming free, non-professional tour guides, bringing good impressions of the people of the Ancient Capital.

Ms. Chu Thi The, Van Lam village (Ninh Hai commune, Hoa Lu district) shared: "Tourism has brought good livelihoods and income to the local people. Therefore, we are determined to preserve and protect the tourist area to develop from small tasks such as keeping the environment clean every day at tourist attractions, beautifying the landscape and street areas; supporting tourists whenever needed".

With careful preparation by sectors, localities and units, this series of activities to celebrate the 10th anniversary promises to bring diversity and richness in content and form, calling for the participation and cooperation of all Ninh Binh people; contributing to marking an important milestone in the socio-economic development of the province.

Thereby, strengthening community cohesion, promoting international exchanges and cooperation in promoting heritage values between provinces and cities with world heritage and countries around the world. At the same time, introducing, honoring and enhancing the value of World Heritage; is an opportunity to introduce the land with long-standing historical and cultural traditions, beautiful natural landscapes, and the people of the ancient capital Hoa Lu, gentle, friendly, elegant and hospitable.

Lan Anh

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