Bringing local culture into tourism activities

Khánh Hoa Province tourism industry is intensifying cultural values ​​in tourism activities. Besides the famous historical and cultural attractions in Nha Trang, a number of travel agencies have built tours to explore culture and cuisine in Ninh Hoa town, Cam Lam district...

Hai Lua Ninh Hoa Joint Stock Company has just introduced to the tourism community in Khanh Hoa a tour to explore Ninh Hoa cultural heritage. "Eating spring rolls, hot noodles in Ninh Hoa/See Ba ​​Vu's mausoleum, Phu Duong flowers", is the introduction of the company's tour. Ba Vu mausoleum (Ninh Hiep ward) is a work with unique artistic architecture built more than 2 centuries ago. During the journey to discover Ninh Hoa heritage, following the tour guide, tourists visit spring roll producing places and experience wrapping sour spring rolls with local people. Ninh Hiep; go to green vegetable gardens in Ninh Dong village to see farmers growing clean vegetables... Cuisine is an indispensable part of the tours. Guests will enjoy famous traditional dishes like nem, Ninh Hoa chicken... More interestingly, customers can pick fresh vegetables themselves to eat pickled fish vermicelli, and drink coconut of Ninh Da with a sweet taste. The company still has tour to experience rustic life in southern Van Phong village with interesting activities, such as following fishermen to cast nets, raking salt with salt farmers and making pancakes with coastal villagers.

Ninh Quoc Dat - Deputy Director of Hai Lua Ninh Hoa Joint Stock Company shared: "Ninh Hoa is a land rich in historical, cultural relics and traditional cuisine. Therefore, we came up with the idea of ​​organizing a tour to explore Ninh Hoa's cultural heritage by taking tourists to visit famous historical and cultural relics, combined with enjoying specialty dishes, thereby partly promoting the history and culture of the homeland. In addition to the main attractions such as Ba Vu Mausoleum, Phu Duong, Ninh Dong Vegetable Village, the tour can open up other attractions, such as Hon Khoi salt field, Quynh Phu assembly hall...

Also with the desire to exploit local culture in tourism activities, Zazen Travel Co., Ltd. cooperates with Alma Resort to organize a tour to explore Vietnamese culture and cuisine. The company's tour guide will take visitors to Cam Duc market (Cam Lam district) to explore the lives of local people and learn about the ingredients that will be used for the cooking class. Next, guests visit Quan Am Pagoda in Cam Lam - the only pagoda decorated with pebbles in Vietnam; visit the mango garden to hear farmers tell stories about growing and harvesting mangoes, and enjoy a unique cup of mango tea. Finally, visitors will return to Alma Resort to learn to cook traditional dishes that have been passed down through generations. Many European tourists and Australian tourists staying at resorts in the Bai Dai area are very excited about going on a tour to explore Khanh Hoa culture and cuisine.

Christina Nguyen - Director of Zazen Travel Co., Ltd. said that the company wants to build tours to explore culture and cuisine to enrich Khanh Hoa tourism products. This is also a way to keep guests staying longer because besides relaxation, tourists can learn about and experience the culture of the destination.

NGUYEN THI LE THANH - Director of Department of Tourism: Khanh Hoa encourages the development of community tourism and cultural tourism models on the basis of exploiting historical relics, intangible cultural heritage, traditional industries... The Department of Tourism are also surveying to build tourism products; typical tourism products for ethnic minority and mountainous areas. Nha Trang is building a project to develop community tourism, cultural and historical tourism in the city; other localities also build tourism development projects in the direction of promoting cultural heritage values ​​and traditional industries. The fact that companies proactively build tours to explore culinary culture and cultural heritage in Ninh Hoa, Cam Lam... is very encouraging. The Department of Tourism and the Nha Trang - Khanh Hoa Tourism Association will connect and support promotional communications so that companies can better exploit these interesting tours.

Xuan Thanh

Translated by T.T