Tuyen Quang connects craft villages to create momentum for tourism development

Tuyen Quang is considered a province with potential and advantages in developing community tourism. Because the villages of ethnic minorities have lived for a long time, living together, basically preserving their customs and practices. The residential space of the people is always in harmony with the majestic, wild and romantic natural landscape of mountains, forests, rivers and lakes. The preservation and development of occupations and craft villages aims to preserve and promote the values ​​and traditional cultural identities of the nation, make full use of local labor resources, and at the same time take advantage of the available local raw materials to serve production to create valuable products, competitive in the market, contributing to promoting sustainable rural socio -economic development, especially as a driving force for tourism development.

Developing craft villages associated with tourism and building new rural areas, including building tourist routes and spots associated with craft villages in the region and in the province; restoring and embellishing relics related to cultural values ​​of traditional crafts and craft villages; organizing craft village tourism routes combined with eco-tourism, agricultural tourism, etc. Focusing on promoting craft villages, craft village products, and famous production facilities of craft villages in tourist routes. [caption id="attachment_1135699" align="aligncenter" width="825"] Craft villages in Tuyen Quang (Collected)[/caption] With value chain linkage, developing craft villages associated with tourism, contributing to rural economic development and new rural construction. Along with restoring, preserving, and maintaining traditional cultural features in products; at the same time, designing new products suitable for the market, improving production capacity, consuming products associated with landscapes and protecting the environment of craft villages. For villages without crafts: Promote the development of production and business industries of products according to market demand, suitable to local conditions through forms of learning experiences, popularizing, replicating from models, craft villages, traditional craft villages that are operating effectively as a fulcrum to attract domestic and international tourists. For the crafts and craft villages that are fading away and are likely to be lost, Tuyen Quang also identifies conservation as the main thing; Conduct investigations and develop projects to maintain households or groups of craft households and artisans performing "performances" to preserve and pass on their craft and serve the needs of tourism and culture. Particularly for difficult crafts and craft villages, Tuyen Quang has a policy of supporting and creating conditions for artisans, skilled workers and establishments in craft villages to maintain stable production of unique products for daily life and community festivals, restore and embellish relics, and build performance areas combined with tourism. Linking tourism with traditional craft villages creates an effective effect on the production of products with high economic and cultural value such as rattan and bamboo weaving, handicrafts, brocade, and embroidery, attracting tourists, creating landscapes and spaces of craft villages to serve production associated with tourism development; forming value chains from raw material areas, production to product consumption. Developing collective economy, attracting enterprises, cooperatives, and cooperative groups to participate in the value chain to provide services for production facilities, meeting the requirements of traceability, effective quality management, and enhancing product value. In particular, building routes, points, and organizing tourism activities, sightseeing,education , and experiencing traditional crafts and craft villages, closely linking with agricultural and rural tourism programs, promoting the consumption of craft village products and local products. In particular, every year, Tuyen Quang province also organizes a program to display and introduce tourism products and craft villages. The program is an opportunity for businesses to widely promote tourism products, OCOP products, handicraft products, and typical traditional craft villages of localities inside and outside the province, contributing to enhancing brand value and preserving the value of traditional craft villages. [caption id="attachment_1135692" align="aligncenter" width="1200"] Nahang (Collected)[/caption] In which, Tuyen Quang has developed a plan to preserve and promote the fine traditional cultural values ​​of ethnic minorities associated with tourism development with the implementation of preserving the Tay ethnic traditional cultural village in Na Hang district, Cao Lan ethnic group in Yen Son district; Restoring and embellishing the special national historical relic of the 2nd National Congress of the Party, Chiem Hoa district; Restoring and embellishing the national historical relic of Ngoi - Da Ban village, My Bang commune, Yen Son district; Restoring and embellishing the national relic of Khe Lau Victory, Yen Son town, Yen Son district; Supporting investment in building typical tourist destinations in ethnic minority and mountainous areas; Building an ecological museum model in the cultural village to preserve intangible cultural heritage in ethnic minority communities towards community development and tourism development; Preserving traditional festivals and intangible cultural heritages of ethnic minorities at risk of being lost; Supporting investment in construction and equipment of cultural houses for ethnic minority villages; Supporting traditional art troupes, building community bookcases for communes and villages in ethnic minority areas; Building attractive and unique folk cultural and festival clubs to attract domestic and international tourists.

Huong Giang