Uong Bi develops sustainable tourism

Uong Bi City has been making efforts to promote the strengths of cultural values in building the image of the destination and affirming the tourism brand of Uong Bi in the direction of spiritual tourism, eco-tourism, green and sustainable tourism .

Many unique areas in the Thanh Y Dao Cultural Space Exhibition House. Photo: Hoang Nga

Since the beginning of the year, Uong Bi City has synchronously and drastically implemented solutions to promote tourism development, strengthen state management of festivals, beliefs, and religions associated with promoting tourist attraction, especially spiritual and cultural tourism during the festival season at the beginning of the year... The city has also focused on developing new registered tourism products. At the same time, it has reviewed and registered to add new tourism products that have been put into operation to attract tourists in the area such as: Dao Thanh Y ethnic community tourism model in Khe Su II village, Thuong Yen Cong commune; VR360 virtual reality tourism product for Yen Tu National Special Relic Site.

In particular, the Dao Thanh Y cultural space exhibition house and the community tourism model in Khe Su II village are two new tourism products out of a total of 62 new tourism products of the whole province that will be put into operation and welcome tourists in 2024. Of which, the Dao Thanh Y cultural space exhibition house has a total investment of 800 million VND. In the exhibition house, 5 Dao Thanh Y cultural spaces will be recreated, with bilingual captions (Vietnamese - English), including: Space to display male and female costumes of the Dao Thanh Y ethnic group; Space to introduce the Dao Thanh Y ethnic ordination ceremony (a cluster of models simulated by statues at a scale of 1:1 and images and explanations of the ordination ceremony); Re-enactment of the Dao Thanh Y rammed earth house model (designed to simulate); space to display the kitchen corner of the Dao Thanh Y people; The space displays a number of images and artifacts associated with the life, activities and culture of the Dao Thanh Y people...

The community tourism model in Khe Su II village is called the Dao Thanh Y Ethnic Community Cooperative Group, invested by Ms. Truong Thi Thanh Huong on an area of about 300m2 with a cost of more than 1 billion VND and put into operation from February 2024. The model has many services such as cuisine, foot bath, herbal bath of the Dao Thanh Y people and serves the culinary needs of tourists with dishes made from local ingredients, processed in the unique way of the Dao people. The model currently employs 4 regular workers and some seasonal workers, and has the participation of local people in cultural, artistic and community sports activities according to the needs of tourists.

The preservation and promotion of traditional ethnic cultural values associated with the development of community tourism is focused on, contributing to the preservation and promotion of many ethnic cultural values, while creating more jobs, increasing income, and improving the living standards of ethnic minorities in the area.

Tourists have fun at Yen Trung Lake Provincial Tourist Area. Photo: Phan Hang

At the same time, the city is implementing the project to build a tourism brand identity for Uong Bi city and the project to digitize and communicate, promote tourism in Uong Bi city on digital platforms; the tourism brand identity for Uong Bi city...

Uong Bi owns the special national relic site of Yen Tu, located in the Yen Tu Monuments and Landscape Complex which is being nominated to UNESCO for recognition as a World Heritage Site. In order to affirm the honor and pride as well as to let the values of Yen Tu permeate deeply into the local cadres and people, in May 2024, the city launched a political and ideological activity "Pride and responsibility when the Yen Tu Monuments and Landscape Complex becomes a World Heritage Site" to each branch, party committee, agency and unit in the area. At the same time, it successfully organized a scientific workshop "Identifying, preserving and promoting the heritage values of Uong Bi land in the orientation of sustainable development of Uong Bi city"...

In the first 9 months of 2024, the city welcomed 3,083,177 visitors, an increase of 15% over the same period in 2023, of which: Yen Tu welcomed 653,560 visitors; Ba Vang welcomed 1,608,700 visitors, the rest were other tourist destinations; international visitors reached 71,860 visitors; tourism revenue reached 1,705 billion VND, an increase of 17% over the same period in 2023; revenue from Yen Tu entrance tickets reached nearly 20 billion VND.

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