(TITC) - Recently, the delegation of the Swiss Cooperation Office in Vietnam had a meeting with Ha Giang Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism on supporting the development of tourism according to sustainable standards in the province.
Visiting Nho Que River (Meo Vac District, Ha Giang Province)
The Swiss delegation introduced about cooperation program of Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) and Project of sustainable tourism development funded by the Swiss Government (ST4SD).
The delegation had a trip to learn the tourist sites in Quang Binh Province and Dong Van Karst Plateau Geopark (Ha Giang Province). Accordingly, Ha Giang Province is considered as a locality with many potentials, specific tourism resources and advantages for tourism development. The province's tourism potential is expressed in two basic forms: cultural tourism and ecotourism. Now, there are 54 travel businesses, 868 tourism establishments including 107 hotels (7,830 rooms).
Visiting Vuong House (Ha Giang Province)
On the basis of local reality, the representative of Ha Giang Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism has proposed the Swiss Cooperation Office in Vietnam to pay attention and support the province to apply a set of criteria to evaluate green tourism for tourism business, towards sustainable tourism development.
Supporting to build 3 models of community tourism development according to the Swiss model of rural tourism, including: community tourism culture village in Khun Village (Bang Lang Commune, Quang Binh District); Community cultural tourism village in Tha Village (Phuong Do Commune, Ha Giang City); Ma Le community cultural tourism village (Ma Le Commune, Dong Van District).
In particular, supporting businesses in training as well as sponsoring Ha Giang tourism marketing initiatives associated with building sustainable tourism.
Tourism Information Technology Center
