FOUNDING UNIQUE TOURISM PRODUCTS FOR DIEN BIEN PHU CITY

Dien Bien Phu city is the most important historical and cultural destination of the Northwest region, famous for the Dien Bien Phu victory and the unique cultural identities. In regards to the concentration of merits, Dien Bien Phu city is critical for tourism development strategy, connecting tourist destinations in the Northwest region.

To promote its potentials, Center for Nature Conservation and Development (CCD) is supporting the Department of Culture and Information of Dien Bien Phu city to formulate a tourism development plan to 2025, in coherence with the city’s natural and cultural resources. The goal of the plan is to identify prime and unique tourism products to advance tourism of the city and adjacent areas in the province. With a favorable geographical position, high cultural and historical value ​​and a newly upgraded transportation system, Dien Bien Phu city will certainly be a special destination in the coming time.

Complementing the tourism development plan of the city, in 2022, CCD cooperated with the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Dien Bien province to formulate the province’s tourism development plan to 2025, vision to 2030, emphasizing its strengths of cultural, historical and community-based tourism. In its strategy, CCD encourages partners to promote community-based tourism, rural and eco-tourism activities to harness and conserve cultural identities of ethnic groups, historical relics, and natural values, ultimately improving and enriching the material and spiritual life of people.