Developing sustainable tourism associated with preserving and promoting folk cultural values - Cao Bang Electronic Newspaper

Folk culture (VHDG) plays a key role in sustainable tourism development. Preserving, promoting and enriching the values of VHDG, such as: tangible and intangible cultural heritage, festivals, cuisine, traditional crafts, indigenous knowledge, customs, spiritual culture, along with preserving the environment and landscape will create special appeal for tourists, while bringing socio-economic benefits to the community and locality.

Preserving and promoting the values of traditional culture associated with tourism development is to use traditional culture as the foundation for tourism development. That is a strategic vision and long-term orientation. Cao Bang has been known by our ancestors as a land of "spiritual people", nature and people here have created a treasure trove of unique traditional culture, a unique traditional culture of Cao Bang. It can be said that Cao Bang - a place where endless resources converge - promises to develop a tourism industry imbued with the traditional culture of ethnic minorities and the wonderful nature that Cao Bang is endowed with.

VHDG plays an important role in sustainable tourism development by enriching tourism products, attracting tourists, creating interesting experiences, contributing to the preservation of diverse but unique cultural heritage; helping local ethnic communities benefit from tourism, such as creating more jobs, maximizing the use of local human resources, increasing income, contributing to sustainable poverty reduction; protecting and spreading cultural identity and the environment. Community cultural village tourism is a form of tourism to explore and experience the life and culture of ethnic minorities in traditional villages of ethnic minorities. Visitors here have the opportunity to learn and experience the customs, practices, village architecture, house architecture, cuisine and unique cultural activities of each ethnic group. Indigenous knowledge tourism is a type of tourism that exploits and honors the cultural values and traditional knowledge of ethnic communities in villages, aiming to bring unique experiences to tourists, while preserving and promoting these cultural values. This form of tourism is different from conventional tourism in that it focuses on sharing and exchanging knowledge and experience between local people and tourists, instead of simply sightseeing and sightseeing. Festival tourism is a type of tourism that focuses on cultural events and festivals of each locality, where tourists can come to experience, learn and explore the cultural values and customs of each specific land and each specific ethnic group. Tourists are sublimated with local people with the rich and unique treasure of traditional culture of Cao Bang, with many unique and attractive festivals that have been attracting a large number of domestic and foreign tourists. Craft village tourism is a type of comprehensive cultural tourism, bringing tourists to visit, experience cultural values and shop for typical goods.

A corner of the village - the living space of the Nung Ven people, Ca Tieng hamlet, Tong Cot commune, a destination for indigenous knowledge tourism in Cao Bang .

In recent years, craft villages have had the opportunity to develop along with the development of the tourism industry. Tourists visiting craft villages can experience the craftsmen and their products can become souvenirs of their trips. The nature of craft villages in social life from the past to the present is a type of economic activity with profound cultural significance. Craft communities are born and develop directly for economic purposes mainly, on the other hand, craft villages are preserved, developed, and contribute effectively to the preservation of traditional cultural values in the professions they are preserving.

Preserving and promoting the traditional culture of ethnic groups, in essence, is to preserve and promote the inherent traditional values, especially the community cohesion in all rural areas. The traditional community cohesion in the current traditional culture, in the context of market economy, international integration, and the tourism industry is being paid attention to, in order to enhance the promotion, promotion, and enrichment of the traditional culture of ethnic groups; is a manifestation of the continuation of traditions and cultural identities of ethnic groups in new conditions, new mechanisms, and new rhythms of life, contributing to improving and promoting the socialization of activities to preserve cultural heritage values, thereby mobilizing voluntary and widespread contributions from people to the preservation of the traditional cultural heritage values of ethnic groups.

Developing tourism associated with preserving and promoting the inherent cultural values in social life is to take culture as the foundation for tourism development. In order to plan solutions and long-term strategic visions, functional agencies and economic-tourism planners need to create differences and appeal; further promote the work of preserving and promoting the unique values of the cultural values of ethnic groups. Raise community awareness and pride of people in their traditional culture, encourage them to participate in activities to preserve and promote cultural values. Developing sustainable tourism based on the cultural values often goes hand in hand with protecting the environment and natural landscapes, contributing to creating a better living environment for the community.

Hoang Thi Nhuan

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