Building safe and attractive Long An tourism
With its natural, cultural and historical advantages, Long An possesses enormous tourism potential and is increasingly asserting its position on the tourism map. However, to effectively exploit this potential, it takes time and effort so that tourists can acknowledge Long An's safe and attractive tourism image.
Long An is located at the "intersection" between the Southeast region and the Mekong Delta region, adjacent to Ho Chi Minh City, so it has a special advantage in tourism development. As a province that occupies most of the area of Dong Thap Muoi region, and has a long history of fighting against foreign invaders, with 126 historical and cultural relics and a number of traditional festivals that attract many tourists, Long An has many opportunities to develop eco-tourism and cultural tourism associated with preserving and promoting local cultural values.
Diverse and attractive destinations
In tourism development, destinations are an important factor, creating attraction for tourists. In the province, places such as Dong Thap Muoi, Vam Co Dong and Vam Co Tay rivers, have long been famous as attractive ecological landscape destinations.
Based on that advantage, Long An always aims to develop ecotourism based on the landscape of Dong Thap Muoi region.
Tan Lap Floating Village Tourist Area and Endless Field Tourist Area (Moc Hoa District) are typical destinations that cannot be missed in Long An.
Visitors rowing at Endless Field Tourist Area
Exploiting the natural landscape of Dong Thap Muoi region and developing advantages from the province's outstanding medicinal herb conservation area, Endless Field still retains its wildness and closeness to nature.
Most of the activities here are of resort nature, returning to nature, taking care of health and regenerating energy. Recreational activities are all associated with the typical natural landscape: Cycling, walking in the cajuput forest, rowing, riding a motorboat to admire the natural scenery of Dong Thap Muoi region, making traditional cakes, enjoying Dong Thap Muoi cuisine, etc.
General Director of the Endless Field Tourist Area - Bui Dac Thang affirmed the motto of "bringing tourists back to green space" and taking care of health, recovering the body after hard working period.
Currently, culinary exploration, cultural experience, medical treatment, and health care tourism are also emerging as a prominent trend. Grasping that, tourist destinations in the province focus on exploiting tourism based on existing local advantages.
At the Vam Co farmstay tourist area (Ben Luc district), the ferry service to experience the river landscape and visit fruit gardens is especially popular with tourists.
Cycling service to visit Ba Vu cajuput forest Historical Site, fruit garden, and enjoy local specialties has also been officially launched at Milan Farm Eco-tourism Area.
My Quynh Zoo is an attractive destination in Long An
In addition to eco-tourism, tourists also tend to look for close, short-term and small-group travel experiences, which creates opportunities for Long An to exploit day tours and weekend tours.
With the advantage of diverse services and types of tourism, Long An has attractive destinations such as My Quynh Zoo, West Lakes Golf and Villas Long An and Royal Long An Golf & Villas.
With the available advantages, tourist destinations in the province are always striving to improve and enhance the quality of services of accommodation facilities, restaurants, and food services to serve tourists. However, the province's infrastructure is not yet synchronous, and tourism development is also facing difficulties.
The number of tourists to Long An has increased recently but is still low compared to the potential. There needs to be synchronous coordination between state management agencies, travel agencies and tourism companies and enterprises in the area to come up with solutions to improve service quality and attract tourists.
Potential for developing tourism from culture
Long An has many traditional cultural festivals, which are also one of the types of tourism resources that are very attractive to tourists, because through festivals, tourists can better understand the customs and practices of local people. In recent years, the province has gradually focused on preserving traditional cultural festivals in the locality in order to exploit the potential through organizing cultural festivals associated with tourism development. Many festivals have been restored and upgraded, not only contributing to enriching the cultural and spiritual life of the people but also becoming human resources serving sustainable tourism development.
Lam Chay is one of the festivals that attracts a large number of tourists in Long An
Currently, the whole province has 404 traditional festivals, of which 3 are national intangible cultural heritages: Lam Chay Festival; Via Ba Ngu Hanh Long Thuong Festival; Dai Le Ky Yen of Tan Phuoc Tay communal house. Long An is also one of 21 provinces with the art of Don Ca Tai Tu, a representative intangible cultural heritage of humanity.
In addition, the province also has a number of festivals that attract thousands of participants: Floating Pagoda Festival, Martyrs' Memorial Ceremony at the Long Khot Historical Site, etc.
To awaken the tourism potential from festivals in Long An, the Department of Culture strives to promote, provide information, images, and festival content on websites, social networks, etc.
Websites and applications such as https://mylongan.vn, Long An Tourism App, Long An Tourism Facebook, Long An Tourism Zalo, Electronic information website of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Digital Map of Routes and Facilities Serving Long An Tourism (dulichsolongan.vn), media channels inside and outside the province, etc regularly update necessary information about tourist destinations and traditional festivals in the province.
According to the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, to promote cultural tourism based on traditional festivals, close coordination with relevant sectors, agencies, and units is required. First of all, it is necessary to select unique festivals to build suitable tourism products that are attractive enough to tourists.
In addition, local people, those who directly participate in festivals, need to raise their sense of responsibility, practice a civilized lifestyle in festivals, preserve and effectively promote the traditional cultural values left by their ancestors. That will be a solid foundation to preserve, restore and promote the value of festivals associated with tourism development, contributing to promoting the socio-economic development of the province.
With constant efforts in preserving and promoting the value of cultural heritage, Long An is aiming to be a place where tourists can explore the beauty of nature, experience unique culture and find peace, a truly safe and attractive tourist destination./.
By Thu Lam - Translated by Q. Thien
Source: https://baolongan.vn/xay-dung-hinh-anh-du-lich-long-an-an-toan-hap-dan-a186129.html
