The great tourism potential of the 'green pearl' in the middle of the Truong Son mountain range

With the approved eco-tourism, resort and entertainment project of Vu Quang National Park, Ha Tinh hopes to exploit the natural potential of landscape, environment, biodiversity, forest ecosystem, historical and cultural relics to develop tourism.

A corner of Ngan Truoi Lake at Vu Quang National Park - Photo: LE MINH

Vu Quang National Park has an area of ​​over 57,000 hectares, of which special-use forest is over 52,000 hectares, protective forest is over 3,600 hectares and nearly 608 hectares of production forest. This place is assessed by domestic and foreign experts as the area with the highest biodiversity in the region.

The park has a rich flora with the presence of 1,616 species of useful plants, including some large-sized precious timber trees such as po mu, du sam nui dat, green lim ...; diverse fauna with 94 species of mammals, 316 species of birds, 33 species of amphibians, 316 species of butterflies. Some rare and endangered species endemic to the Truong Son range such as saola, large-antlered muntjac, brown-shanked douc, white-cheeked gibbon, Truong Son striped rabbit, sun bear ...

Vu Quang National Park has many beautiful, pristine landscapes, high biodiversity, especially here there is Ngan Truoi irrigation lake, Da Han irrigation lake with dozens of large and small islands. This is a great potential for developing eco -tourism , resorts, entertainment, but for many years it has not been effectively exploited.

"Monkey Island" at Vu Quang National Park - Photo: LE MINH

In early July 2025, the People's Committee of Ha Tinh province issued a decision approving the project on ecotourism, resort and entertainment in Vu Quang National Park, period 2025 - 2030 with the goal of exploiting the natural potentials of landscape, environment, biodiversity and diversity of forest ecosystems, historical and cultural relics to develop ecotourism, resort and entertainment in the direction of sustainable development.

Create a legal basis to attract investment from businesses and investors to create resources for the construction and development of eco-tourism, resorts and entertainment in Vu Quang National Park. At the same time, improve the management capacity of Vu Quang National Park; create conditions for local people to participate in tourism to increase income, raise awareness of forest protection, environmental protection, biodiversity protection and conservation, promote local cultural values.

With this project, Ha Tinh hopes to attract at least 15,000 tourists by 2030, of which the number of international visitors accounts for at least 8% of the total number of tourists. Creating regular jobs for about 500 workers, including about 100 direct workers and 400 indirect workers; workers are trained in professional skills and ecotourism associated with community livelihoods.

Attract at least 5 investors to cooperate, link and rent forest environment to develop eco-tourism. Improve quality, diversify and perfect tourism types and products, develop a synchronous and modern tourism infrastructure system, diverse and high-quality tourism products with typical products of Vu Quang National Park.

LE MINH

Source: https://tuoitre.vn/tiem-nang-du-lich-to-lon-cua-vien-ngoc-xanh-giua-dai-ngan-truong-son-20250714105450987.htm