When participating in the self-made tourism model, people actively preserve and promote local cultural values, improve the landscape and environment, contributing to forming the overall face of Con Ho increasingly green, clean and beautiful. In addition, people are equipped with knowledge about community tourism, communication skills in the process of serving tourists and safety in tourism activities.
Con Ho today has changed both in appearance, as well as in the professionalism in welcoming guests to visit and experience. Those who have been to Con Ho (My Duc commune, Cang Long district, Tra Vinh province) since the first days people on the island started to learn and learn how to do tourism will feel the difference when coming back to Con Ho. The second and third time. Still with kind smiles, still enthusiastic and hospitable, when the train carrying our group was about to dock, the image of tourist households standing in line and giving guests conical hats to shade the sun was already there. Leave a good impression in everyone’s heart. Brand new look If in the early days of doing tourism, the family members of the seven households on Con Ho were chosen with many surprises, today instead is professionalism in how to welcome and serve visitors. On both sides of the road leading to Mr. Hai Nguyen’s house (the first person of Con Ho to boldly register to participate in the implementation of the Thuan Thien tourism model) is a row of flowers blooming in the sun at ten o’clock, blue pea flowers blooming in the sky. Welcome gate with the words “Tea and flowers of Hai Nguyen butterfly” make visitors curious and interested. Over a cup of tea, Mr. Hai Nguyen said: “Not only tourists but also people on Con Ho have never thought that there will be a tourist day, nor can they imagine that Con Ho today has brought on a face. completely new. For more than a year, people have welcomed many delegations inside and outside the province to visit, learn about the culinary culture, lifestyle of local people as well as the wild beauty on Con Ho. We have the opportunity to introduce to visitors the food and drinks of local products prepared by ourselves, the ingredients are also grown and cared for by the people themselves. Con Ho was very sad before doing tourism, because the young generation all went to big cities to study and live, most of them were old people on Con. Now, every week, Con Ho welcomes groups of guests from all over the world to visit and learn, in July, households can welcome a group of several dozen people, Con Ho is crowded and bustling.” Mr. Hai Nguyen shared. 
Mr. Hai Nguyen, one of the first people to boldly register to participate in self-tourism, feels happy because Con Ho is now clean and spacious and more and more tourists come to visit and interact with people. The yard in front of the house, which was used by Nguyen Van Trai and his wife to make a barn for pigs and chickens, has now been renovated to the Herbal Garden, for visitors to relax after participating in experiential activities at Con Dao. Ho. The melodious meditation music combined with the rustic natural scenery helps visitors relax after a long day of sightseeing. A cup of hot ginger tea enjoyed with assorted squash jams, ginger jams… made by Trai’s wife makes guests feel like they’re back home. In order to keep the campus clean and beautiful, Trai and his wife take turns cleaning every day, besides, they also pay more attention to beautifying the campus of the Herbal Garden with flowers and some herbs. Coming to Con Ho for the third time, Ms. Nguyen Thi Nga (District 7, Ho Chi Minh City) shared: “The feeling of coming to Con Ho is the same every time, like returning home, people still welcome guests with enthusiasm, friendly. The same people, the same way of doing tourism, but every time I come to Con Ho, I see a change here. The most obvious of which is that the environment around Con Ho is becoming more and more complete, with enough facilities to serve tourists. 
Hai Trai Herb Garden is a place where guests can relax after a period of time participating in experiential activities on Con Ho. From the perspective of tourists, Ms. Nguyen Thai Tuong Van, Director of Thai Loan Tourism Company in Bien Hoa City (Dong Nai province) for the second time to Con Ho said: Currently, the needs of tourists are very diverse. Many people like to learn and discover the beauty as well as the unique characteristics of culture with this type of experience tourism. Con Ho is one of the unspoiled spots and has all these elements. Therefore, Ms. Van’s travel company has connected with the locality to bring tourists to visit Con Ho. Improve life, promote local cultural values Sharing with a reporter from the online newspaper of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Dr. Ta Duy Linh, director of the Institute of Economic Development and Tourism, said: When participating in the self-made tourism model, people take the initiative to preserve preserving and promoting local cultural values, renovating the landscape and environment, contributing to forming the overall face of Con Ho increasingly green, clean and beautiful. In addition, people are equipped with knowledge about community-based tourism, communication skills in the process of serving tourists and safety in tourism activities. From the knowledge shared by experts, people practice self-tourism model more and more professionally and make a good impression on tourists. When tourism develops, people’s income is increased. Tourism creates more excitement for people, helping people feel more secure in the production of plant varieties and livestock. Connecting the resources of the agricultural sector to tourism helps people partly solve the output of agricultural cultivation. At the same time, it helps visitors enjoy the typical and quality products of the locality. 
The products used to entertain tourists are grown by local people on Con Ho Besides, through tourism activities, people’s social network is expanded. Communicating with tourists is a good opportunity for people to interact with many parts of society. From there, people exchange, connect and form positive social relationships that help people’s lives and production. In particular, according to Dr. Ta Duy Linh: Tourism helps to enhance the status and role of women in the family. Currently, nearly 70% of the force involved in tourism activities in Con Ho are women. Women are shown skills, talents and create more motivation to think positively for women. Women are increasingly playing an active and important role in the exploitation and development of tourism in the locality. The above changes have partly met the initial goal of the self-directed tourism model deployed by the Research Institute for Economic Development and Tourism in collaboration with the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Tra Vinh. perform. The market for Con Ho tourism products is that domestic and foreign tourists tend to enjoy the experience of searching for nostalgia, memories and have a high ability to pay. At the same time, through the application and deployment of self-tourism model, stakeholders are expected to introduce impressive destinations and share valuable emotions for visitors. 
The model of community-based tourism is highly appreciated by tourists as well as tour operators due to the unspoiled natural environment, and the cultural life that still preserves the village culture of the South. Deputy Director of Tra Vinh Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism Tran Van Thanh said: After the Con Ho community ecotourism model was put into operation, it contributed to creating more products to serve tourists. The model of community-based tourism is highly appreciated by tourists as well as tour operators due to the unspoiled natural environment, the cultural life that still preserves the village culture of the South, exploiting unfavorable conditions. benefits without electricity into different tourism products such as: “oil lamp tour”, “self-made” tourism … to attract visitors. In the coming time, in the immediate future, during the complicated situation of the COVID-19 epidemic, the province will focus on perfecting and “refreshing” tourism products, training to improve professional skills and building programs stimulate demand to attract tourists when the COVID-19 epidemic situation stabilizes. In the long term, Tra Vinh will continue to invest in a number of typical products for each locality based on indigenous cultural factors and typical tourism resources of each locality associated with climate change adaptation according to the model. “Thuan Thien” tourism aims to both develop and promote cultural values associated with environmental protection for sustainable tourism development./.
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