Decision No. 509/QD-TTg dated June 13, 2024 of the Prime Minister approving the Tourism System Planning for the 2021-2030 period, with a vision to 2045, has set out 6 specific orientations: tourism market development; tourism product development; tourism space organization; tourism development investment; tourism business system organization and development; tourism human resource development. In recent years, the province has focused on synchronously implementing construction and management solutions to develop tourism into a spearhead economic sector of the province, increasingly affirming its important position in the coastal economic development corridor along the Northern coastal region. Timely grasping the opportunities from the implementation of the newly announced planning will be the way to help the province's tourism economy truly exploit its full potential to take off.
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| Tourists visit and experience eco -tourism at Xuan Thuy National Park (Giao Thuy). |
Diversified Nam Dinh tourism products
Located in the South of the Red River Delta, Nam Dinh province has quite rich and diverse tourism resources, including: natural tourism resources, human tourism resources. With 72km of coastline and a system of large rivers such as the Red River, Day River, Ninh Co River, the province has formed beautiful ecological landscape sub-regions, sea tourism areas or ecosystems with relatively high biodiversity. Not only is it the birthplace of the Tran Dynasty, Nam Dinh is also the place that marks the legend of the Holy Mother Lieu Hanh - one of the "four immortals" of Vietnamese folk beliefs; is a land that preserves and promotes many traditional cultural values of the wet rice agricultural civilization with typical cuisine, craft villages, traditional festivals, relics, and scenic spots. In the period of 2011-2020, the province has gradually shaped the development of 4 main types of tourism, including: cultural tourism, eco-tourism, sea tourism, and rural tourism. In particular, cultural tourism and eco-tourism are two priority directions for development in the National Tourism Development Strategy. Cultural tourism is associated with the system of historical and cultural relics, religious and belief establishments such as: Phu Day relic complex (Vu Ban), Tran Temple - Pho Minh Pagoda relic site (Nam Dinh city), Co Le Pagoda (Truc Ninh), Dai Bi Pagoda (Nam Truc), Keo Hanh Thien Pagoda, General Secretary Truong Chinh memorial site (Xuan Truong)... and the system of Catholic churches: Bui Chu, Hung Nghia, Phu Nhai, Quan Lieu, Kien Lao, Thanh Danh, Hai Ly "collapsed church" ruins... Cultural tourism activities attract a large number of domestic and foreign tourists during each annual festival. Therefore, in order to serve a large number of tourists, relic areas, religious and belief establishments have been and are implementing measures to restore, embellish and expand to meet the requirements of capacity and accompanying tourism services.
Ecotourism in Nam Dinh is mainly in the Xuan Thuy National Park nature reserve, which is being developed in Giao Xuan commune (Giao Thuy) and the buffer zone communes. This is the first international RAMSAR site in Vietnam and Southeast Asia, home to 1,178 plant species, 46 mammal species, 323 bird species and 54 reptile species, including many rare species of scientific research value. For sea tourism, resorts have been established such as Thinh Long (Hai Hau), Quat Lam (Giao Thuy), Rang Dong (Nghia Hung) along with experiential tourism models in salt making, fish sauce making, net weaving, exploitation, fishing and seafood processing villages. Countryside tourism is a new type of tourism that has been developed in Nam Dinh in recent years with typical countryside tour programs of the Northern Delta, where there are traditional craft villages: growing flowers, ornamental plants in Vi Khe, making paper flowers, water puppetry in Hong Quang (Nam Truc); silk reeling, weaving in Co Chat, Cu Tru (Truc Ninh)... or places where Eastern and Western cultures are approached and exchanged, associated with the land-opening culture of the communities of coastal districts: Giao Thuy, Hai Hau, Nghia Hung. Through countryside sightseeing activities, tourists have the opportunity to visit the new rural landscape, the Countryside Museum, Giao Thinh commune (Giao Thuy) and beautiful Catholic churches with diverse and classic architecture and enjoy agricultural specialties such as: eight-grain rice, sticky rice, Hai Hau longan cake, Mrs. Thin's banh chung, Giao Thuy spring rolls, Binh Di wine... In addition, rural cultural spaces such as: Cuu Khuc ancient village, Ngoi bridge - Luong pagoda, Pham Phao brass village, Ecohost Hai Hau community tourism model are also very attractive to tourists. Tourists come to Nam Dinh almost all year round during the early spring and late autumn festivals, in the summer at resorts, swimming in the sea and in the winter when visiting, researching and learning about Xuan Thuy National Park, but the largest number of tourists are still during the Phu Day festival, Tran Temple's seal opening festival, and Vieng Market festival at the beginning of the year.
Focus on investment development, creating a synchronous and connected tourism space
With the attention of the Government and the Ministry of Transport, the province has directed the mobilization and effective exploitation of central and local capital sources and other legal capital sources to invest in the construction of tourism infrastructure, focusing on prioritizing investment in traffic routes, power systems, and technical facilities for priority projects in the development plan. From 2016 to now, 4 projects have been implemented: construction of infrastructure for the Quat Lam eco-tourism and resort area (Giao Thuy); construction of technical infrastructure in the Phu Day and Cho Vieng areas (Vu Ban); upgrading and expanding the Thinh Long tourist area road (Hai Hau) - the section from Provincial Road 488 to Route 1; renovating and upgrading the Thinh Long tourist road (Hai Hau) - the section connecting from National Highway 21 to the main road of the tourist area. Investing in, building and renovating tourism infrastructure, including upgrading roads to help tourists access tourist attractions more easily, has attracted investors from all economic sectors to actively invest in building a system of hotels, restaurants and entertainment areas to serve tourists.
Currently, Nam Dinh tourism space is planned into 3 main areas associated with the province's socio-economic space including: northwest tourism area (Nam Dinh city and surrounding areas), transition tourism area (Truc Ninh, Nam Truc, Xuan Truong) and southeast tourism area (Nghia Hung, Giao Thuy, Hai Hau). In which, the southeast tourism area focuses on developing sea tourism, eco-tourism; the transition tourism area develops community tourism. The northwest tourism area - the gateway of the province connects with provinces and cities in the Red River Delta region. The main function of this tourism area is cultural tourism associated with tourist attractions: Tran Temple, Pho Minh Pagoda, Bao Loc Temple, Vi Xuyen Lake, Provincial Museum, Textile Museum (Nam Dinh city); Phu Day, Nui Ngam eco-tourism area (Vu Ban) and some traditional lacquer, bronze casting, wood carving villages of Cat Dang, Van Diem, Tong Xa, La Xuyen, Ninh Xa (Y Yen). The three main tourist areas of the province are connected by important traffic routes: National Highway 21, Provincial Road 490C, coastal road, Ninh Co River, Red River...; in which, Nam Dinh city is the focal point, the nucleus for coordinating tourism activities in the direction of developing the province's regional tourism space.
According to the Master Plan for Tourism Development in the Red River Delta and the Northeast Coast (1 of 7 regions in the list of Vietnam's tourist regions) until 2020, with a vision to 2030, the direction of exploiting typical tourism products includes: sightseeing, caves, ecological values, visiting relics, festivals, and spiritual beliefs. Nam Dinh province has developed tourism according to the general development roadmap of the region, especially cultural, historical, and spiritual tourism products; focusing on 2 main tourist destinations: Tran Temple and Phu Day. At the same time, a number of national tourist routes have been formed: Hanoi - Ha Nam - Ninh Binh - Nam Dinh - Thai Binh; Ninh Binh - Nam Dinh - Thai Binh - Hai Phong - Quang Ninh and some specialized tourist routes: spiritual festival tourist route: Huong Pagoda (Hanoi) - Tam Chuc Pagoda (Ha Nam) - Bai Dinh Pagoda (Ninh Binh) - Tran Temple, Phu Day (Nam Dinh) - Tran Temple, Keo Pagoda (Thai Binh) - Yen Tu Pagoda (Quang Ninh); tourist route to visit and learn about relics according to Vietnamese historical dynasties: Dinh, Le, Ly, Tran, Hau Le, Nguyen. Along with that are tourist routes to visit and experience craft villages, ancient Vietnamese villages; tourist routes, countryside tours; tourist routes to visit the old town (Hanoi, Hai Phong, Nam Dinh); tourist routes to explore the sea and islands in coastal provinces; Tourist routes to explore national parks, nature reserves, biosphere reserves: Cat Ba National Park (Hai Phong) - Xuan Thuy National Park (Nam Dinh) - Red River Delta Biosphere Reserve in the area of 5 districts: Giao Thuy, Nghia Hung (Nam Dinh), Kim Son (Ninh Binh), Thai Thuy, Tien Hai (Thai Binh)...
“Exploiting and maximizing the unique potential, outstanding opportunities, competitive advantages and rich cultural and historical traditions of the land of “geomancy and talent”, building diverse, modern and strictly controlled tourist areas, resorts, nature reserves… is one of the goals expressed in the Nam Dinh Provincial Planning for the period 2021-2030, with a vision to 2050. The viewpoint of Nam Dinh tourism development is consistent with the Vietnam Tourism System Planning for the period 2021-2030, with a vision to 2045, which has just been announced. The orientation for Nam Dinh tourism development in the coming time is: Developing tourism in a sustainable direction and diversifying products; on the basis of inheriting, promoting and perfecting 5 types of tourism (natural eco-tourism; cultural, historical and religious tourism; resort and entertainment tourism; community tourism; thematic tourism); Focus on restructuring the tourism industry in a professional, modern and synchronous direction; build and affirm a number of specific tourism brands of Nam Dinh; complete tourism service infrastructure; effectively operate tourism areas and clusters in tourism linkages into tours and routes; promote linkages to develop domestic and international tourism, striving to make Nam Dinh a destination in the "attractive destination" strategy of Vietnam tourism.
Article and photos: Khanh Dung
Source: https://baonamdinh.vn/van-hoa-nghe-thuat/202411/nam-bat-cohoi-de-phat-trien-du-lich-nam-dinh-theo-huong-chuyen-nghiep-dong-bo-hien-dai-fb91199/
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