Dien Bien Province focuses on developing community-based tourism

From 2004 to 2010, Dien Bien Province has invested in community-based tourism development in eight cultural villages of Dien Bien District and Dien Bien Phu City.
Many families have voluntarily donated their land with total nearly 7,000m2 for construction of welfare establishment, cultural house…; actively improved their houses, restored traditional handicraft production, participated in offering tourist services.
After seven years of implementation, the villages have welcomed over 65,000 tourist arrivals, including 6,000 international ones and earned 7 billion VND.
In order to promote community-based tourism development in Dien Bien, the Culture, Sports and Tourism Department has submitted for approval the project of developing cultural ethnic villages period 2010-2015. In particular, the province will select another 10 villages of Hmong, Thai, Lao, Kho Mu ... ethnic people, located on the province's key tourist routes in Tuan Giao, Dien Bien, Muong Cha districts and Dien Bien Phu City for developing into tourist attractions.
The ethnic villages are expected to attract from 10 to 15% of the total number of tourists to Dien Bien annually after the project is completed.
Translated by Hong Thanh