The new ‘Green Travel’ section on the national tourism website vietnam.travel/sustainability set up by the VNAT in collaboration with the Vietnam Tourism Advisory Board (TAB) and the Sustainable Tourism Programme of Switzerland (SSTP) aims to boost tourism activities among foreign expats in Vietnam. … [Read more...] about Web page launched for green travel in Vietnam
How are travellers an ethnic minority
Road leads to better lives for ethnic minority groups
“In 2003, two friends and I took two days to travel from my hometown in Huổi Cò in Dương District to Hoà Bình Township for admission to secondary school,” Và Bá Tịnh, a Mông ethnic man and vice chairman of Nhôn Mai Commune, told Nhân Dân newspaper. … [Read more...] about Road leads to better lives for ethnic minority groups
Web page launched for green travel in Việt Nam
The new ‘Green Travel’ section on the national tourism website vietnam.travel/sustainability set up by the VNAT in collaboration with the Việt Nam Tourism Advisory Board (TAB) and the Sustainable Tourism Programme of Switzerland (SSTP) aims to boost tourism activities among foreign expats in Việt Nam. … [Read more...] about Web page launched for green travel in Việt Nam
Tourism in indigenous villages needs a boost
Located inside Pu Luong Nature Reserve, Kho Muong village is surrounded by evergreen forests and is an ideal getaway for those seeking to experience ethnic minority life. Thirteen local households now offer homestay services, each year welcoming 300 tourists on average and earning up to 5,000 USD. But they still encounter numerous difficulties in providing tourism services, in particular a lack of investment in sanitation. … [Read more...] about Tourism in indigenous villages needs a boost
Sin Suoi Ho, an attractive community-based tourism village
A homestay in Sin Suoi Ho Village. Photo laichau.gov.vn “On average, each household here earns VND30-50 million per year from growing orchids. Households who both do homestay services and grow orchid also collect VND200-300 million per year. With that benefit, people now decorate their houses and multiply cymbidium orchids gardens to welcome tourists. We are also supported by the local government in training to make tourism more professional,” said Vang A Giang, an owner of a cymbidium orchids garden. … [Read more...] about Sin Suoi Ho, an attractive community-based tourism village
