First time organizing Northwest and Ho Chi Minh City Culture-Tourism Week in Laos

The Northwest and Ho Chi Minh City Culture-Tourism Week will take place in Louangphabang province, Laos from October 25-27.

This is a typical cultural and tourism event of 8 extended Northwestern provinces (Phu Tho, Dien Bien, Ha Giang, Hoa Binh, Lai Chau, Lao Cai, Son La, Yen Bai) and Ho Chi Minh City, held for the first time in Louangphabang, contributing to realizing policies on developing foreign affairs, culture, and tourism, practically celebrating the 61st anniversary of the establishment of Vietnam-Laos diplomatic relations (1962-2023).

The program will include a series of rich cultural, sports and tourism exchange activities, introducing the unique national cultural identity and tourism products of the Northwest region, Ho Chi Minh City and Louangphabang province, promising to create a vibrant, attractive and new cultural and tourism space for people and tourists of the two countries.

The exhibition of beautiful photos of tourism in the Northwestern provinces will provide an overview of tourism images, natural landscapes, and customs of ethnic groups through the lenses of many authors and groups of authors.

Along with that is the space to display, introduce, promote tourism products, agriculture and experience cultural, sports and tourism activities; organize Famtrip groups to survey destinations, products, tourism services; seminars to promote and advertise tourism; art exchanges...

The highlight of the Northwest and Ho Chi Minh City Culture-Tourism Week in Louangphabang is the special art program "Northwest-Ho Chi Minh City, the colors of the great forest."

The program was elaborately staged, praising the natural beauty and people of the two countries, introducing the unique culture of each locality to a wide audience.

This is also an opportunity for businesses to survey and evaluate destinations, products and tourism services in Louangphabang province, thereby building a foundation for developing connecting tourism products, promoting linkages, cooperation and expanding markets between localities of Vietnam and Laos.

According to the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism), in recent years, implementing the Program of cooperation in tourism development of 8 expanded Northwestern provinces and Ho Chi Minh City, tourism of the provinces in the region has had many improvements, contributing to preserving indigenous culture, creating momentum for growth and economic restructuring in localities.

In particular, the provinces in the region have tens of thousands of hectares of terraced fields, of which three locations, Mu Cang Chai district with nearly 2,200 hectares, Hoang Su Phi district with nearly 765 hectares and Sa Pa with nearly 1,000 hectares, have been recognized as National Landscapes. This is a great potential for the provinces to link up and develop tourism.

The Northwest has a special tourist attraction with Fansipan peak known as the "roof of Indochina," Muong Phang forest - a natural reserve with many rare flora and fauna of Dien Bien province...

Along with that is the vast and beautiful Moc Chau Plateau with many typical flowers adorning the Northwestern mountains such as ban flowers, plum flowers, peach flowers...

The Northwest region is also home to many ethnic groups, preserving intact traditional cultural identities, including cuisine, attracting domestic and foreign tourists...