Hai Ha: Creating attraction from tourism activities

Identifying tourism as an important economic sector of the locality, Hai Ha district has focused on developing tourism products associated with preserving and promoting local cultural values, contributing to socio-economic development and improving the cultural life of the people.

The Mun Wave Festival will be held in March 2024 in Quang Duc commune, Hai Ha district with a series of unique cultural and sports activities, attracting a large number of tourists. — The Mun Wave Festival will be held in March 2024 (Quang Duc commune, Hai Ha district) with a series of unique cultural and sports activities, attracting a large number of tourists.

Since the beginning of the year, there have been more than 152,000 tourists to Hai Ha, reaching 127% of the plan, an increase of more than 50,100 compared to 2023. Total revenue from tourism activities reached 198 billion VND.

Since the beginning of the year, Hai Ha district has actively implemented a series of tourism stimulus plans with a series of cultural, artistic, and sports activities to attract tourists to the district before, during, and after the Lunar New Year, the occasion of organizing spring festivals in 2024, and the peak tourist season in 2024. Many events have been organized in the district, such as: My Son Communal House Festival, Cai To Communal House Festival; Quang Linh Communal House Festival; Song Mun Festival (lucky festival) of the Dao ethnic group in Quang Duc commune; Cai Chien Cultural Tourism Week - welcoming summer 2024, Tra Duong Hoa Festival, the 2nd Hai Ha District Singing Competition...

In the series of tourism stimulus events organized by the district since the beginning of the year, it is necessary to mention the events that create highlights for Hai Ha tourism, such as: Successfully re-enacting the Mun Wave Festival - the Lucky Festival of the Dao Thanh Y ethnic group with 9 unique activities imbued with Dao ethnic culture in early spring, attracting nearly 5,000 visitors. Cultural - Tourism Week "Cai Chien welcomes summer 2024" with activities to experience sea tourism and participate in sports competitions attracted more than 3,000 visitors; Hai Ha District Flower Tea Festival with a series of 13 cultural, sports and culinary activities attracted over 5,000 visitors to visit and experience.

Currently, Hai Ha district has 65 accommodation establishments with a total of 782 rooms and more than 2,300 tourism workers, of which about 845 are direct workers in the tourism and service sector. The district has been recognized by the province for 2 routes and 3 tourist destinations, including: Route 1 "Tran Hung Dao Temple, Hai Ha Pagoda - Bac Phong Sinh Border Gate", Route 2 "Tran Hung Dao Temple, Hai Ha Pagoda - Cai Chien Island"; 3 tourist destinations are "Tran Hung Dao Temple, Hai Ha Pagoda", "Bac Phong Sinh Border Gate", "Cai Chien Island". Initially, the district focused on orienting to attract and build key and unique tourism products, such as: Sightseeing, research, and experience tourism of the Dao ethnic group in Quang Duc and Quang Son communes; High-class sea and island resort tourism; combining golf, sightseeing, and ecological research in Cai Chien island commune; Mountain lake resort tourism, combined with weekend entertainment; Visit and experience community culture at Truc Bai Son Lake (Quang Son Commune).

Special tourism product groups with local significance have also begun to take shape and attract tourists, such as: High-tech agricultural eco-tourism associated with OCOP products; VietGAP (Quang Minh, Duong Hoa, Quang Thanh, Quang Long communes); Cultural - festival - spiritual tourism (Quang Ha town, Cai Chien, Quang Minh, Duong Hoa communes); Tourism to visit war relics: Cao Fort, Doc Cong Troi, Cao Ba Lanh peak...

Cultural activities of the Flower Street Tea Festival, Hai Ha district, October 2024.

Continuing the goal of maximizing available potentials, in 2024, Hai Ha district has registered 3 new tourism products including: Kayaking, sightseeing cruises, exploring the islands of Cai Chien commune; electric car tour to visit Cai Chien island and eco-tourism to experience Quang Long tea hill.

Along with that, Hai Ha focuses on improving the quality of tourism products, enhancing service quality and inspecting and supervising the implementation of State regulations and laws in tourism business activities at tourist areas and destinations; coordinating with Ha Long University and the Department of Tourism to organize training courses and foster professional skills for tour guides at the site for more than 40 people; establishing a group of tour guides at the site with a total of 40 members participating; organizing the dissemination and education of law in 2024 on the topic "Handling administrative violations in the tourism sector" and "Improving skills in identifying and preventing online fraud in cyberspace in tourism business activities", implementing digital transformation in tourism development...

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