DIEN BIEN – AN ULTIMATE TOURISM DESTINATION IN VIETNAM’S NORTH-WEST

Dien Bien is Vietnam’s well-known historical place for the world with a climax of the Dien Bien Phu Victory. Dien Bien has also known as a splendid land, a valley where Thai ethnic culture originates. In addition, the mountainous areas surrounding the Muong Thanh valley with its magnificent scenery and the unique culture of many ethnic minority groups in the Northwest. However, that priceless natural, cultural, and historical values have not been used effectively to attract tourists, thereby increasing income for the community and boost the socio-economic of the Northwest region.

Promoting those hidden charms, the Center for Nature Conservation and Development (CCD) is supporting Dien Bien province to strategize and formulate a tourism plan for 2021-2026. The plan will detail the “Vietnam Tourism Development Strategy by 2030” and concretize the Dien Bien province’s resolution on turning tourism into a strategic and most important economic development tool.

Tourism and its supporting services will help to increase value chain, improve production, services, and consumption. Tourism also helps to promote the recognition of the province’s natural cultural values to the public and the world. Tourism will help the public to know Dien Bien beyond a land of victory but a province with its magnificent natural landscape, diverse cultural of ethnic people such as the Thai in Muong Thanh valley, the H’mong in the Tua Chua Karst Plateau, and other ethnic groups in the far Westernmost corner of Vietnam