Sacred Lung Cu Flagpole. Hidden beauty Referring to Ha Giang, perhaps any Vietnamese would like to once set foot there, to stand under the sacred Fatherland flag fluttering on Lung Cu flagpole, where according to historical books Ly Thuong Kiet had visited Ha Giang. first marked the territory’s sovereignty with a sandalwood tree. In 2010, Lung Cu flagpole was invested and built on a large scale, located at an altitude of 1,400m above sea level, octagonal shape, over 30m high, 54m² area, representing 54 ethnic groups. Coming to Ha Giang, visitors cannot help but come to Dong Van rock plateau, which is recognized by UNESCO as a Global Geopark. Located at an altitude of 1,000 – 1,600m above sea level, with an area of ​​2,356km², stretching through 4 districts of Quan Ba, Yen Minh, Meo Vac and Dong Van, this is the convergence of many famous historical sites. Famous historical sites such as Lung Cu Scenic Landscape Complex, Vuong Dynasty National Architectural Art Monument, Dong Van Ancient Town, Ancient Stone Beach, Archaeological Site… such as Nho Que river, Ma Pi Leng – “The first pass in the world”, Tu San alley – the deepest canyon in Southeast Asia with a depth of 700 – 900m. Not only possessing the strength of the natural landscape, Ha Giang is also a land rich in culture with special festivals taking place all year round such as the Long Tong festival of the Tay people in January, the Gau Tao festival of the Mong people; March with Khau Vai love market; May has the festival of forest gods of the Lo Lo people; in July, go to the Cu Te festival of the La Chi people; September has the Fish Festival of the Tay people; In October, go to the fire dance festival of the Pa Then people; November is the Buckwheat Flower Festival… Peaceful Dong Van stone plateau. Huynh Le Phuoc, a tourist from Binh Thanh District (Ho Chi Minh City) shared after visiting Ha Giang: “Ha Giang is really a land of hidden beauty full of charm with unspoiled nature. , magnificent with diverse cultural identity. I will come back here many more times to explore this interesting part of the country.” Attract customers with key products In 2020, the Covid-19 epidemic broke out many times, greatly affecting the tourism industry and localities. However, Ha Giang tourism still attracted 1.5 million visitors and achieved a growth rate of 7% compared to 2019. Not only that, in the first quarter of 2021, Ha Giang was honored to enter the top 10 destinations of Vietnam. has a beautiful natural landscape, rich in cultural traditions, and is safe in the prevention of Covid-19 as voted by international media agency CNN. Sharing about the above results, Mr. Nguyen Hong Hai, Director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Ha Giang province said: “In order to fulfill the set target, right after the first outbreak of the epidemic, Ha Giang quickly promulgated a plan to implement solutions to restore tourism activities after the Covid-19 epidemic in the last months of 2020 and 2021, and simultaneously implemented solutions to attract tourists such as building trade a safe destination in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic to create peace of mind for tourists; develop a program to stimulate domestic tourism; strengthen the application of science and technology and promote linkages in the promotion and publicity work … “. Hoang Su Phi terraced fields. According to Mr. Nguyen Hong Hai, thanks to the timely “pivot”, focusing on exploiting the domestic tourist market, Ha Giang has minimized the damage caused by the Covid-19 epidemic. At the same time, the province pays special attention to overcoming seasonality with tourism products spread throughout 4 seasons of the year such as buckwheat flower season; watching terraced fields in the pouring water season, ripe rice season… or exploiting products all year round such as community tourism, exploring Lung Khuy cave, walking on the White Cliffs, cruising on Nho Que river to see Ma pass Pi Leng and Tu San Canyon… In addition, Ha Giang also regularly organizes sports activities such as the international marathon on the road of Happiness; off-road motorcycle and automobile racing tournaments; paragliding over the buckwheat fields… in order to diversify experience activities and attract a wide range of guests. From the reality of Ha Giang, it can be seen that which locality quickly responds to the pandemic, builds a safe destination brand, and at the same time captures the market trend to offer unique products. will attract tourists. That is a professional way to both limit the damage caused by the epidemic and develop tourism in a sustainable way.

Many visitors enjoy the beautiful nature of Ha Giang. Photo: Ha Giang tourism By 2020, the number of visitors to the province will reach over 1.5 million, reaching a turnover of about VND 1,500 billion from tourism activities, making an important contribution to consolidating the strategic position of the province for the provinces and cities in the country. nationwide, attracting many investors to Ha Giang, contributing to creating livelihoods for people to eradicate poverty. The province has stepped up the development of cultural and tourist community villages, creating jobs for thousands of workers, and raising incomes for rural people. Since then, people have also consciously preserved traditional cultural values, tourism resources, embellished campus, housing, and clean environment; Traditional craft villages have been restored and preserved, natural landscape has been improved. Comrade Nguyen Hong Hai, Director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Ha Giang province, said that in the context of the COVID-19 epidemic, last year, Ha Giang tried to turn challenges into development opportunities, focusing on promoting tourism promotion aimed at the domestic tourist market, branding a safe destination for tourists, and building tourism stimulus programs. Ha Giang has also built a diversified, plentiful and attractive tourism product, spread evenly over 4 seasons in a year. Create conditions for tourism businesses to bring tourists to Ha Giang. And most importantly, in development, Ha Giang still maintains an important goal of preserving the protection of natural resources and the environment towards the goal of sustainable development. However, he also frankly acknowledged the weaknesses and shortcomings that need to be overcome: the investment in infrastructure was not synchronous, the human resource was insufficient and did not meet the development needs, products and services. not rich, diversified, lack of entertainment centers, accommodation services for middle and high-class guests … Tourists learn traditional culture of Lo Lo ethnic group in Meo Vac. Photo: hagiang.gov.vn In order for Ha Giang tourism to continue to develop and successfully implement the Resolution of the Congress of the Provincial Party Committee for the term 2020-2025 on tourism development, from the beginning of this year, Ha Giang’s tourism industry organized a welcoming program. the first visitors to Ha Giang, organizing many cultural events, rich tourism, imbued with local ethnic identities; maintain and restore unique festivals of indigenous people such as the Tày people’s association of Cage Tong; The Cao Cao Association of the Mong people; Khèn Mong Association; Khau Vai love market; Cu Te Association of La Chi people; boat racing festival; Fire Jump Festival. In addition, the province also enlisted the support of the General Department of Tourism, Mobifone Telecommunication Corporation, and signed a memorandum of cooperation on tourism development and digital transformation. Especially the application of digital technology in tourism promotion activities. Not only focusing on the places endowed by nature, Ha Giang has also been building an image of Ha Giang more and more beautiful with a brilliant spring with flowers all over the high mountains, on the slopes of gray stone, Summer comes back with terraced fields and waves to match the pouring season, autumn with yellow color and terraced rice fields, sea of ​​clouds on top of Chieu Lau Thi – Hoang Su Phi and a romantic winter with immense triangles … According to Mr. Tran Duc Quy, Vice Chairman of Ha Giang Provincial People’s Committee, with the goal that by 2025 Ha Giang will attract 3 million tourists, the province is focusing on improving the quality of human resources to promote tourism. development; to attach importance to preserving, restoring and promoting the typical cultural values ​​of the Mong people and actively replicating them among ethnic minorities; raise community awareness about conservation and development of typical cultures of ethnic groups; focus on building cultural villages with ethnic characteristics in order of priority to key regions; mobilize resources for restoration and heritage conservation; continue to develop unique tourism products based on cultural heritage potentials… /.

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./.