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Handicraft villages attract tourists in Vietnam

In recent years, the traditional forms of tourism villages in Vietnam increasingly attractive to tourists, especially foreign tourists, by the age-old cultural values and creative handmade products featured in each area.

Van Phuc silk village in hanoi

Many foreign visitors are interested in joining the tour villages. Ms. Barbel Maeseen, a tourist from Germany, has said the reason to visit villages in India because the peaceful village sightseeing, find out about the training, be familiar with the artist, farmers and has also been directly involved in the production process manually.

Go along the length of the S-shaped country, visitors can stop at almost any local traditional village to learn about. According to the Association of Vietnamese village, now there are more than 2,000 craft villages, 11 group training is lacquer, ceramics, embroidery, rattan, rush, textile, paper, paintings folk, wood, stone, metal.

The advantage of the majority of the village is located on the convenient transportation, both road and river so convenient to build tourism programs combined. Possible successor to the local quite active in promoting the advantages to develop tourism villages such as Ha Noi, Ha Tay, Hoa Binh, Bac Ninh, Thua Thien-Hue, Quang Nam, Da Nang …

Province is concentrated in the country village, Ha Tay “way” to attract visitors by organizing tourism festivals annual traditional villages to promote the products of the villages in the province. According to Nguyen Dan, Ha Tay Tourism Department officials at the fair, many villages have had the opportunity to sign export contracts in place, bring the value of billions each year.

The Bac Ninh province, Hue, Da Nang chosen to build the site to introduce village, creating opportunities to promote brands and products to enable the type of tourist villages. Or at the Bat Trang ceramic village (Hanoi), buffalo walk model by attracting tourists. Sitting have free on buffalo car, visit the pottery village for tourists feel interesting. “Thanks to this form of travel combined number of tourists visit our village has increased 3-4 times than before,” artisan Nguyen Van Hai, 65, boasts a form of marketing “unique second to none “.

Referring to the form of tourist villages, can not ignore a tourism program has been very popular and is the favorite of foreign tourists especially, “One day the inhabitants of the old town” in the town of Hoi An ( Quang Nam). Participate in this program, you can manually make the lanterns in the old town or vegetable involved digging and processing of food from agricultural products of the famous Tra Que vegetable village. A day to be “transformed” into native has prompted many travelers can not forget and can not wait to return to this land.

According to the Hoi An tourism services company, from 2005 to the present, each year more than 1,000 foreign visitors and thousands of domestic tourists to “farmers” in Tra Que vegetable area.

However, travel experts say, although some such as Van Phuc silk village (Ha Tay), Bat Trang (Hanoi), Dong Ho, Dong Ky wooden furniture (Bac Ninh), stone carving village Non Nuoc (Da Nang) in fact has attracted a significant number of tourists, but still just spontaneous efforts, not shaping up to be a professional.

So, to really promote village tourism potential and effectiveness, according to experts, local governments and tourism enterprises need to have close cooperation, mutual support, especially in the stage of promotion, advertising to attract tourists.

Vu The Binh, Director of Travel, Tourism, villages recommendations focused restore traditional production techniques, to encourage collaboration between artists, the vocational school in the stage of handing for young people to the village is really exciting destination with unique products to meet the shopping needs of the visitors. /.

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