Tourism investment now focuses more on enhancing experiences, upgrading infrastructure, and developing skills for local communities. Projects only generate sustainable development when investment is tied closely to local life and livelihoods.
The Việt Nam Institute of Culture, Arts, Sports and Tourism gathered feedback from representatives of local tourism authorities, experts, researchers and travel enterprises at a recent workshop on the project Tourism Development at UNESCO Global Geoparks in Việt Nam, aiming...
The northernmost province of Ha Giang, which has the
largest area under buckwheat in the north-western region, will organise
the first ever buckwheat flower festival in early October when fields
in full bloom and look most beautiful.
A beautiful cave system with magnificent stalactites has been discovered
on the Dong Van karst plateau near Lung Khuy village commune in the
northernmost province of Ha Giang.
A professor at the Hanoi University of Science and
Technology, Dang Van Chuyet, has been to a lot of areas in Tay Bac
(Northwest) region, but he said none were as beautiful and imposing as
the karst plateau in Ha Giang Province.
Strategies were needed to sustainably develop the Dong Van Karst Plateau
Global Geopark in Ha Giang Province without damaging the natural
heritage, a conference attended by UNESCO heard.
Scientists from the Viet Nam Archaeology Institute have found more
traces of early human settlement in the Dong Van karst plateau in
northern Ha Giang Province.
A festival dedicating to the pan-pipe playing of the Mong ethnic group
will take place in Dong Van Karst Plateau in the northern mountainous
province of Ha Giang this month.
The old Dong Van Market in the Dong Van Karst
Plateau of Ha Giang Province has reopened for tourism after a new market
was built for locals 500m away, vice chairwoman of the People''s
Committee of Dong Van District Ly Thi Kien told...
The northeastern province of Ha Giang lures tourists
from all over with its steep rock ascents hidden in blankets of clouds.
In spring and autumn, buckwheat flowers bloom all over the valleys
within the karst plateau.
Archaeologists in the north-eastern province of Ha
Giang stopped by on some very old relatives recently, when they stumbled
across caves thought to have housed humans 20,000 years ago.
