Ha Giang tourism still attracts visitors despite the Covid-19 epidemic

Ha Giang continues to be a bright spot for tourism in the context of the Covid-19 epidemic that makes the whole industry difficult. This locality has built products and events in four seasons, thereby overcoming the seasonality and attracting visitors year round.
According to information from the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Ha Giang province, in March 2021, the number of visitors to Ha Giang increased by 29.7% over the same period in 2020, reaching more than 104,000 arrivals. The whole quarter I / 2021, Ha Giang welcomed more than 352,000 visitors, the revenue reached 581 billion.

In 2020, before the complicated development of the Covid – 19 pandemic, the global tourism industry and Vietnam tourism will face many difficulties. However, in 2020, Ha Giang tourism has made a breakthrough, resulting in attracting 1.5 million visitors, an increase of 7% compared to 2019 and reaching 100% of the plan. Tourists enjoy the field of vascular flowers. Photo: Ngo Hai Mr. Nguyen Hong Hai – Director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Ha Giang province said: In 2020, although the tourism industry in the whole country has difficulty, Ha Giang still has a growth in the number of tourists. The attraction of Ha Giang tourism lies in its local cultural values ​​and community tourism. The cultural diversity of indigenous peoples has helped models of the CBT to be successful and “hold on” even during the Covid-19 pandemic. To achieve these successes, Ha Giang province has applied a series of measures to attract tourists and restore tourism activities. The locality has built and ensured a safe destination brand, creating peace of mind for tourists in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. Ha Giang province has drastically deployed all four criteria: safe means of transporting passengers, safe accommodation, safe restaurants and safe destinations. Besides the domestic tourism stimulus program, Ha Giang province has simultaneously reduced the ticket price by 50-80% at tourist destinations; at the same time encourage businesses to implement the policy of both reducing prices and improving service quality, implementing many gratitude and promotion programs … Spring cherry blossoms in Ha Giang. Photo: Ngo Hang Tourism products in Ha Giang are also developed in the direction of diversification, diversity and attraction; Especially, overcoming the seasonality by building tourism products spread evenly across the four seasons of the year. In spring, Ha Giang is brilliant with peaches, pears and plum colors; In the summer, experience terraced fields in the flooding season, visit the old battlefield associated with the Vi Xuyen front. In autumn, visitors can watch the golden rice on terraced fields, conquer the high mountains, hunt clouds at Chieu Lau Thi peak. Winter Ha Giang is famous for its vast triangular flowers … Many destinations in Ha Giang are also exploited year-round tourism, notably the community tourism cultural villages, beautiful views of Co Tien mountain – Quan Ba, Lung Tuy cave, King dynasty architectural monuments, columns Lung Cu flag, yacht on Nho Que line … Besides, Ha Giang regularly organizes sports activities to attract tourists such as marathon on Happiness road, terrain racing, paragliding. On the golden season, explore the cave system … Ha Giang is also the four seasons of the festival. January goes to the Tày people’s cage festival, H’mong’s Buckwheat festival, February to Khèn Mong festival, in March to Khau Vai love fair, May to Lo Lo’s God festival, in July to Khu Cu festival To the La Chi people, in August the boat racing, October to the fire dance, the brocade weaving festival, in November to the triangular flower festival … Nho Que River in Ha Giang. Photo: Ha Lan Cultural traditions imbued with ethnic identities (costumes, traditional house architecture, customs, farming methods …) is also an indispensable experience when visitors come to Ha Giang to visit seasons. Traditional dishes of upland ethnic groups have also been upgraded to a variety of unique culinary and cultural products serving tourists. Products meeting OCOP standards such as Bac Quang – Vi Xuyen crockery orange, Quan Ba ​​seedless persimmon, pear on rock plateau, mint honey, ancient snow shan tea, Humpback cake … are put into service. travel. In the coming time, Ha Giang province will continue to focus on preserving and promoting the values ​​of cultural heritages, historical relics and traditional cultures of the local community; protect the green – clean – beautiful environment landscape, ensure security, order and safety for tourists in tourism activities. This locality will actively mobilize social resources to invest, upgrade and expand the existing tourist sites and destinations and invest in new tourism projects to improve the quality and efficiency of the tourism industry. Ha Giang./.