Lao Cai protects environment to develop tourism 2015: Lao Cai is a province in the Northwestern
mountainous region of Viet Nam where is home to 27 ethnic groups with
special traditional characteristics. The province is also endowed with
beautiful landscapes, impressive caves and ancient rocks of over
hundreds of thousands of years… thus creating a huge tourism potential
for provincial tourism development.Specially,
Sa Pa Town- a district of Lao Cai Province has beautiful scenes with
green forests alternating ancient European-style villas and churches.
The town is located at altitude of 1,500 m with an average annual
temperature from 15 to 18°C, sometimes below 0º C with snow. To the west
of Sa Pa Town lies Hoang Lien National Park- one of four important
special forests of Viet Nam having total core area of 29,845 ha and
buffer area of 38,724 ha including a high mountain system of Hoang Lien
Son range with the 3,143m Fansipan - the highest peak of Indochina.
In
the recent years, the number of tourists visiting Lao Cai has been
increasing with nearly one million tourists in 2011, up 9.1 % compared
with 2010 and total revenue reached VND 1,300 billion in 2011, up nearly
65% over the previous year. In the first 6 months of 2012, the number
of tourists visiting Lao Cai estimated 606,660 arrivals, including
265,980 int’l arrivals, up 26.6% over the same period in 2011, with
total revenue of VND 1,127 billions.
On the other hand, tourism
environment is also facing pollution caused by the limitation in
environmental protecting awareness of some tourists and local people.
Environmental pollution has impacted scenic beauty, reduced quality of
local people living and limited their ability to welcome tourists.
Therefore,
the Viet Nam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT), the Lao Cai
Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Sa Pa People’s
Committee have recently launched a campaign on green - clean - beautiful
environmental protection with the message “Environment plays an
important and significant role in tourism development and environmental
protection is the key of sustainable tourism development”.
Speaking
at the launching ceremony, Deputy Director General of VNAT, Mrs. Hoang
Thi Diep said Lao Cai tourism had been developing significantly in
recent years contributing to the poverty-alleviation movement and daily
living improvement for local community. This is a chance to enhance
people’s awareness on environmental protection aiming to develop
sustainable tourism for ethnic groups in the province.
At the
ceremony, volunteers, domestic and int’l tourists joined in to clean
environment at some tourist spots in Sa Pa. On this occasion, the VNAT
has awarded Sa Pa 40 rubbish bins to place at tourist attractions.
Thanh Pham
Ho Chi Minh City hotels
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