Community Tourism Development Plan in Nghet Village

Although tourism activities here are spontaneous, the locals organize programs for visitors. According to the village chief, the whole village has 12 households that often have visitors. Each family has about 10 to 15 visitors per month. Visitors here are mainly foreigners from France, England, Australia... They usually go in groups of about 4-5 people. Visitors come here to rest, enjoy the scenery, and learn about the daily life of the locals. They only need to pay the family 40 thousand VND/person/night. Some activities that the locals provide for visitors:

-Provide accommodation and meals

- Take visitors to the village and learn about the lives of the people

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- Guide guests through farming activities such as planting food crops, harvesting rice, and threshing rice by hand. This activity is enjoyed by many guests.

- Teach them Dao ethnic songs and dances

- One activity that visitors really enjoy when coming to Nghet village is fishing in the stream because the stream here has a lot of fish and when they finish fishing, they get to enjoy the fish they caught themselves in a typical local way.

- At the request of many visitors to the village, they are looking to restore traditional crafts such as jewelry making and weaving. Currently, weaving has begun to be restored.

There are no statistics on income from tourism, but when asking people who have worked in tourism, they confirmed that their income is much higher than their previous job. Families working in tourism earn an additional 1 to 1.5 million VND per month from tourists. In 2006, the average income of people in

If the village income is only 420 thousand/person/month, the income from tourism will greatly help their lives.

2.3.3. Impact of tourism on the community

Although tourism has just begun to appear in the village, it has had certain effects on the lives of the people.

2.3.4. Positive

For travel:

 Create a new tourism product for the region, a new development direction for the community;

 Contribute to attracting tourists;

 Contribute to protecting natural resources in general and tourism resources in particular.

For the community:

 Increase income for people from tourism services. Compared to before doing tourism, their income increased from 1 to 1.2 million/family/month.

 Tourism activities have enhanced the pride of the villagers in their indigenous cultural values, especially for the younger generation. Participating in tourism helps them raise awareness about all aspects of life, providing an opportunity for members to take responsibility in preserving environmental and cultural resources.

 Create more jobs for local people, especially women and young workers.

 Developing infrastructure for people such as renovating houses, roads, sanitation facilities, clean water systems, communication systems, post offices, etc., contributing to changing the face of the locality.

 Using local resources in terms of landscape, climate, forest water, rivers, and customs that were previously overlooked has now become development potential.

 Improve the material and spiritual life of the locality while enhancing the role of community ownership for each member and the whole society.

 The sanitary environment in the village is increasingly clean, neat and tidy...

 Is a development direction to ensure long-term life and maintain the development of their future generations.

b. Negative

 The appearance of strange people has caused the unorganized exploitation of natural resources, causing the destruction of the landscape, environmental pollution, water pollution, increased waste...

 Emergence of social evils and lifestyles that are not in line with the traditions of the people.

 Conflict between those who benefit and those who do not benefit from tourism. This is a risk leading to community disunity and many other negative effects.

2.3.1.4. Attitude of local people

When talking to local people about tourism activities, most of them expressed enthusiasm for tourism activities. However, there are also people who have not worked in tourism and have no knowledge about tourism, thinking that tourism activities do not bring any economic efficiency, sometimes even destroy their cultural identity, so they are not enthusiastic about responding to tourism activities in the locality.

Most of the people here participate in tourism activities with the purpose of increasing family income and making a living. That is their main motivation, economic benefits are still the top priority for local people.

The questionnaire was distributed to 45 people. 40 questionnaires were collected.

Some information obtained from the survey:

- 90% of the villagers work in agriculture, 10% do other jobs, mainly working for hire in town. That 10% is entirely young people.

- 35/40 people want to work in tourism, accounting for 87%.

- 60% confirmed that what visitors like most are their customs, while 40% said they like to go farming with their families.

- 100% confirm that they lack both capital and experience and do not receive any help from the government.

- 9/40 respondents have participated in tourism activities.

Summary

To implement the tourism program in Nghet village is a process of applying a combination of many different measures from advocacy, education, encouragement to create a change in awareness for the community that is associated with backward customs. There must be a close connection between the work of preserving traditional culture and tourism activities to organize the exploitation and promotion of cultural heritage; the cultural heritage of the Dao Quan Trang people must become an effectively exploited tourism resource through which to propagate,

Promote and introduce to domestic and foreign tourists the typical cultural identity of the people. At the same time, through exploiting revenue from tourism services, it will reinvest in the work of preserving and promoting the values of traditional cultural heritage.

CHAPTER 3

BUILDING A COMMUNITY TOURISM MODEL IN NGHET VILLAGE - PHU THINH COMMUNE - YEN SON DISTRICT - TUYEN QUANG PROVINCE

3.1. Community tourism development plan in Nghet village

3.1.1. Characteristics of Nghet village

Nghet village is located about 10 km from the center of Tuyen Quang town, about 4 km from the center of Phu Thinh commune. The village has a large population of 94 households with 374 people. According to the village chief, the village has about 30 rich households, 20 well-off households and the rest are poor households. People's lives depend heavily on farming, raising livestock and exploiting forests. In particular, Lung Chao mountain has a very large mineral resource and is being exploited unreasonably. This greatly affects the environment. The Dao Quan Trang people living here have a very unique ethnic cultural tradition such as: long-standing customs and beliefs, a treasure trove of dances, ethnic songs, and traditional crafts. This place has a fairly large forest area, good climate, favorable for tourism development.

In recent years, the village has attracted visitors to learn about the cultural life and activities of the people. Most of them are students, researchers, non-governmental organizations and international visitors. This can be considered the first step for the village to invest in attracting tourists who want to learn and explore.

The activities that villagers provide for visitors are still very limited, mainly providing accommodation, food, guidance, taking visitors to climb mountains; organizing tours to visit villages, learn about the culture, customs and life of ethnic minorities...

Organizing performances and cultural exchanges to serve guests, production and sale of handicrafts and weaving are being restored.

The village also requested relevant agencies at all levels to assist the village in developing a community-based tourism development program.

3.1.2. The need to develop a community tourism development program here

Yen Son district in general and Nghet village in particular are endowed by nature with natural landscapes and very good climate. At the same time, the people here still preserve many unique cultural values. This will be a condition to attract tourists, especially foreign tourists who want to learn about the good and unique features of the local people.

Although the village is only a dozen kilometers from Tuyen Quang town, the people's lives face many difficulties. Economic exchanges are very limited. Their lives mainly depend on agriculture and animal husbandry. The people's educational level is low.

Tourism has begun to appear here but is only spontaneous, so it has given rise to a series of problems. In addition to economic benefits, negative activities have also appeared more and more clearly in ethnic minority areas. That is the degradation of natural resources due to the opening of paths for visitors to enter the forests, trees are cut down to make roads. In addition, due to economic difficulties, communities in these areas have relied on natural conditions such as hunting wild animals, cutting trees for wood, firewood... with the purpose of maintaining life, causing the environment and resources to increasingly deteriorate. In addition, there is the disappearance of indigenous cultural features and the penetration of social evils. From there, the question arises of how to ensure tourism development while still preserving natural resources, preserving indigenous cultural identities and bringing economic benefits to the entire community, not just a group of people. Only in this way can we raise public awareness of the need to protect environmental resources as the only way to ensure the long-term survival and development of their future generations.

3.1.3. Model building process

3.1.3.1. Construction plan and model goals

Construction plan

Due to difficult geographical conditions and limited community awareness, to build a community tourism development model, the following steps must be followed:

- Selecting a location to develop the model: First, establish a management board to study issues related to the program such as: population characteristics, resource characteristics to assess the attractiveness, sensitivity and ability of community participation... The management board needs to coordinate with the community to have the most accurate assessments.

- Conduct feasibility studies: Research the ability to preserve resources, preserve cultural values, customs and practices, as well as the ability to develop tourism, the ability to attract visitors, research the benefits tourism can bring to the community, research the financial ability to help the community and other resources that affect the model building.

- Identify market potential and needs: Consider the community's ability to provide services and other markets the community can target.

- Planning policies and implementation plans: outlining tourism development orientations, resource and environmental protection orientations to have appropriate policies for each orientation, creating the basis for the success of the plan, with specific options.

- Develop organizational structure and labor: identify managers, the role of the community when participating, and the organizational structure to operate the model.

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