On July 11, the Hanoi Department of Tourism organised a workshop in Hanoi, to assess the current situation of agricultural and rural tourism development in the city.
With a large suburban area, Hanoi has the potential to develop agricultural and rural tourism. The city issued Plan No. 73/KH-UBND dated March 4, 2022, on the economic development of agricultural and rural tourism, associated with new rural construction in Hanoi city from 2022 to 2025.
Accordingly, the departments, branches and localities had programmes and activities to integrate the content of agricultural and rural economic development, in association with new rural construction.
Currently, the city has two OCOP products for rural tourism: Hong Van village, Hong Van commune, Thuong Tin district; and Phu Dong Green Park, Phu Dong commune, Gia Lam district.
In addition, the city's People's Committee has also recognised seven other tourist attractions in the suburbs, associated with agricultural, rural, craft villages, and ecological tourism.
However, agricultural and rural tourism in Hanoi still faces many difficulties and limitations.
At the seminar, experts proposed solutions to develop agricultural and rural tourism in Hanoi into a spearhead field, to attract tourists to stay longer and experience more.
Many experts believe that it is necessary to link agricultural experience tourism with craft village activities; the city has a policy on rural human resources, focusing on job change orientation for the young generation in localities, to participate in economic activities; connecting the tourism and education sectors to promote experiential school tourism in rural areas, creating a stable source of visitors for agricultural tourist destinations.
