The Central Highlands includes 5 provinces: Kon Tum, Gia Lai, Dak Lak , Dak Nong and Lam Dong; located at the Vietnam-Laos-Cambodia border junction, adjacent to the North Central, South Central Coast and Southeast regions.
The Central Highlands is a geographical and cultural space with many unique and attractive tourism potentials: Majestic natural landscapes, high mountains, vast primeval forests, fresh climate, unique traditional cultural values such as the Central Highlands Gong Cultural Space, traditional festivals... are all attractive tourism potentials.
The Central Highlands region has rich and diverse natural resources and a diverse culture (Photo: Internet)
Because of the cool climate all year round, typical of a temperate zone in the heart of the tropics, with the four seasons of spring - summer - autumn - winter existing in one day, the Central Highlands is a "hot escape" land that is loved by many tourists. This place has diverse and unique ecosystems of the national parks Yok Don, Chu Yang Sin (Dak Lak), Kon Ka Kinh ( Gia Lai ), Chu Mom Ray (Kon Tum), Bi Dup Nui Ba (Lam Dong) ...
Talking about the Central Highlands is talking about the most unique cultural treasure in the whole country. The Central Highlands also carries great heritages, which are "Central Highlands Gong Culture Space, a masterpiece and an intangible cultural heritage of humanity; unique traditional architectural values such as: Rong House, Dai House, Mo House...; unique traditional festivals (Elephant Racing Festival, Gong Festival, Leaving Graves, New Rice...); folk cultural values, oral epics, unique ethnic musical instruments. These are the unique historical and revolutionary cultural values of the Central Highlands that have been and are being exploited by the provinces in the region to build tourism products to visit and study the indigenous culture of villages in Buon Don, Buon Joon, Buon M'lieng, Bon Kon'Tu, Kon Klor Cultural Village, Dak Rang Cultural Village, Buon Go - Cat Tien... Visitors can combine sightseeing with studying unique architectural values such as Rong House, Dai House, Tomb... or musical instruments, farming tools, costumes...
The Central Highlands festivals such as the Gong Festival, the Elephant Racing Festival, the Da Lat Flower Festival... are always of interest to tourists and are attended by them. Traveling here can be combined with visiting cultural, historical and revolutionary relics such as Dak To - Tan Canh relics, Kon Tum Prison, Kon Tum Wooden Church, the border junction, Pleiku Prison, Tay Son Thuong Dao historical relics...
A very different travel experience in the Central Highlands (Photo: Internet)
With an important strategic position, the Central Highlands has favorable conditions to expand economic development exchanges, especially tourism development with many regions in the country and internationally. Many major tourist routes have been formed, such as: "Central Heritage Road", "Central Highlands Green Road", the trans-Asia tourist route connecting Vietnam with Indochina countries...
Dak Nong UNESCO Global Geopark - a new tourist attraction with great potential for the development of tourism in the Central Highlands provinces (Photo: Ngo Minh Phuong)
With the advantages of space and typical climate, tourists coming to the Central Highlands for the purpose of sightseeing and relaxation account for over 55%, followed by those combining with work, visiting relatives... The international tourist market to the Central Highlands is mainly French tourists (accounting for 23 - 25%), followed by the US, Taiwan, China, UK markets... In recent years, there has been a number of international tourists following Caravan tour groups to the Central Highlands through the Le Thanh border gate (Duc Co - Gia Lai), Bo Y (Ngoc Hoi, Kon Tum)...
Therefore, tourism development is one of the urgent tasks that the Government and provincial authorities in the Central Highlands always pay attention to. Resolution No. 23-NQ/TW of the Politburo on the direction of socio-economic development and ensuring national defense and security in the Central Highlands region until 2030, with a vision to 2045 and recently the Government's Action Program to implement Resolution No. 23-NQ/TW of the Politburo has helped the Central Highlands have more opportunities to promote its inherent potential, preserve cultural and historical values...
The Central Highlands provinces identify intra-regional cooperation and linkage as important factors in promoting tourism development in the entire region. Provincial authorities need to have policies to support and facilitate the tourism business community, and develop attractive policies to attract investors.
In addition, there is a long-term vision in planning and developing infrastructure. Developing a series of new and attractive tourism products, increasing the interesting experience for tourists. Forming tourism development values of each province in the region, creating unique characteristics. At the same time, organizing regional promotion and advertising strategies...
Sustainable tourism development in the Central Highlands will lead to socio-economic and environmental stability, contributing to local economic development, creating social equality, reducing poverty, raising the sense of responsibility of all classes in respecting different cultures, protecting natural resources and the ecological environment./.
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