Hung Kings Worship Rituals

PANO - A Famtrip delegation from Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City discussed ways to boost tourism products in the ancestral land of Phu Tho at a seminar to review potential and feasibility of the tourism route “Exploring cultural heritage of the ancestral land”, hosted by the province on October 28th.

In this seminar, the delegation learnt more about the province’s great potential for tourism. Located at the top of the Northern Delta triangle, which borders lowland and mountainous areas, Phu Tho province is the northwestern gateway of Hanoi. With its long history, it is considered the ancestral land of Vietnam.

According to Nguyen Ngoc An, Director of the Phu Tho Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the province has diverse types of tourism, ranging from spiritual to ecotours and health tours. The province’s advantages are historical relics, architecture culture, archaeological, art architectural and revolutionary relics, especially the sacred cultural space at the Hung Kings National Historical Relic Site, and two UNESCO-recognized intangible cultural heritages, Xoan singing and Hung Kings Worship Rituals.

Moreover, the province is famous for its natural resources, including Xuan Son National Park with ecological and biological diversity, and Thanh Thuy hot spring which is good for heath recovery and treatment.

Learning about the province's potential, Phung Quang Thang, Director of Hanoi Tourism Corporation, said that to develop tourism in Phu Tho, local authorities should build a clear and specific tourism development strategy for travel agencies to attract more tourists. With its less modern infrastructure, Phu Tho should focus on cultural heritages with historical value for its tourism development.

For her part, Nguyen Thi Tho, Director of Phuong Hoang Trade and Tourism Limited Company, suggested that Phu Tho should develop community tourism at old houses and trade villages to attract more international tourists, along with scientific and efficient promotion of Phu Tho tourism.

Stressing local specialties, Tran Thi Viet Huong from Vietravel Tourism Company said that the province should have its specialties for tourists to stimulate their spending. “Tourists are hard-to-please customers, so public toilets and roads to tourist spots should be clean”, Huong said.

With its great tourism potential, Phu Tho is expected to become a tourist centre in the future, if it has a good tourism development strategy and builds close cooperation between travel agencies and local authorities, said Vu The Binh, Deputy Head of the Vietnam Tourism Association.

Translated by Mai Huong