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Communities placed at centre of sustainable tourism development
Community-based tourism brings economic benefits to local communities, contributing to the effective preservation and promotion of natural and cultural resources of each region, in line with the trend of sustainable development. Community-based tourism is to be promoted in the Vietnam Tourism Development Strategy to 2030 in ...
Ha Giang ready for Mong Ethnic Cultural Festival 2023
The Mong Ethnic Cultural Festival and the Mong Khen Festival in 2023 are expected to attract a large number of domestic and foreign tourists to explore the unique cultural activities of the Mong people in the Ha Giang Stone Plateau.Ha Giang province in general and ...
Yen Minh
Humans increasingly settling in high-risk flood zones, study warns
Humans are increasingly settling in areas highly exposed to dangerous flooding, particularly in China, Vietnam and Bangladesh, a study warned Wednesday (4/10). The research, led by a World Bank economist, warns that settlement growth in flood zones has vastly outpaced growth in safe areas since ...
Discover a multilingual Vietnamese image promotion platform
A comprehensive miniature Vietnam is available through https://vietnam.vn as a rich treasure about the country and people of Vietnam, hoping to satisfy readers who love Vietnam and want to learn about Vietnam.With a huge amount of information compiled from more than 100 major press agencies, ...
Ha Giang’s fee proposal for Dong Van Geopark raises controversy
The management board of Dong Van Karst Plateau Geopark said since 2011 experts at the UNESCO Global Geoparks Network (GGN) have discussed entry fee collection and financial autonomy for the tourism site. A report showed that about 65 percent of travelers to the province would visit ...
Linh Trang
Ethnic minorities receive ecotourism training
A series of training courses are being organised for 1,200 ethnic minority people who are part of ecotourism chains in the central provinces of Quang Binh, Quang Tri, Thua Thien-Hue and Quang Nam. The programme, which is being run by Helvetas Vietnam, aims to improve ...
Son La develops medicinal herbs in association with community tourism
Developing medicinal herbs is a new direction to restructure high economic crops in the northern mountainous province of Son La. But in order to overcome difficulties in output for medicinal herbs, many experts believe that Son La needs to promote innovative start-ups in this field ...
Anh Tuyet
Thirty tourism units sign commitments on environmental and wildlife protection
Representatives from 30 travel enterprises and conservation organisations signed a commitment to support tourism with high responsibility regarding theenvironment, nature and wildlife protection on December 17.The commitment highlighted the respect for nature, ecosystems and local culture in tourism business activities as well as the prohibition ...
Construction waste should be recycled: experts
As Việt Nam is undergoing infrastructure development which brings mounting waste, recycling construction waste is necessary because it will not only take advantage of the resource but also protect the environment, experts have said.A National Strategy for Integrated Management of Solid Waste has been introduced by ...
Few construction works are green
The demonstration projects of UNDP on technical solutions to minimize energy consumption in newly built and improved works show that the energy saving levels could be 25-67 percent per work, and the cost is higher by 0-3 percent and maximum capital recovery 5 years.Only 155 ...
Thanh Hung