Protecting environment in Tam Coc – Bich Dong to attract tourists

Update: 27/12/2012
(TITC)- Located in Ninh Hai Commune, Hoa Lu District, Ninh Binh Province, Tam Coc – Bich Dong is 100km south of Ha Noi City. It is a popular destination with great tourist potential of landscape, culture, historic, festival, and spirit.

However, Tam Coc – Bich Dong has been influenced by negative impact of waste disposal, boat vendors harassing tourist to sell things, and photographers following the boats and insistently asking tourists to take pictures…

To deal with these problems, relevant local authorities have implemented measures to improve tourism environment, which draws the participation of local people, tourist area management boards.

The tourist area management boards have organized training courses for tour guides, popularized information to raise awareness of environment protection of local people including rowers, photographers, vendors..; collaborated with local authorities to gather garbage into right places; deployed boats along Ngo Dong River to collect rubbish…

For households living in the area, especially those who run restaurants and hotels, local authorities have encouraged them to ensure environmental hygiene, avoid littering, deforestating, stalactites carving, birds hunting...

Therefore, tourism environment in the area has been improved significantly. Consequently, Tam Coc – Bich Dong has attracted more and more tourists thanks to a green – clean – beautiful environment.

Hong Thanh