Quang Nam Province's Experience in Restoring and Developing Traditional Craft Villages Associated with Modern Tourism Development Trends


comfortable and safe for tourists. In addition, build each type of tourism appropriately, create diverse tourism products, meet the needs of each type of tourist.

It is known that in recent times, Hanoi has launched tours to visit craft villages, but in general, the number of visitors to these tours is still too small. According to assessments, the development of craft village tours in the capital is still facing many difficulties, especially in infrastructure, transportation, and unprofessional service style.

To support craft villages to develop quickly, strongly and sustainably, especially exploiting tourism and service potential, in 2012, the Hanoi Department of Industry and Trade carried out many activities to support the development of occupations and craft villages, typically assessing the environmental status of craft villages in the Nhue and Day river basins. Organize information collection on craft villages to publish books and produce films introducing the potential for developing crafts and craft villages... In particular, from the national and local industrial promotion funds, the Hanoi Industrial Promotion Center has organized 45 vocational training courses, cultivating rattan and bamboo weaving, embroidery, lacquer, scarf weaving, sculpture... for 3,250 academies, implemented 7 major programs focusing on vocational training, cultivating and improving skills, supporting technological innovation in craft villages, improving management skills for business owners, production facilities..., organizing for businesses to participate in fairs and exhibitions, introducing craft village products to promote and promote investment, business linkage, production cooperation between regions and localities, creating an important premise for craft villages to preserve and develop cultural values ​​more and more effectively.

2.3.2.2. Experience of Quang Nam province in restoring and developing traditional craft villages associated with modern tourism development trends

Ma Chau is a traditional craft village, raising silkworms, reeling silk, weaving silk famous since the 16th century in Quang Nam. Ma Chau craft village is located in Chau Hiep hamlet, Nam Phuoc town, Duy Xuyen district, the whole village currently has about 200 families but every


Every year, Ma Chau produces hundreds of thousands of meters of silk to serve domestic and foreign needs. According to villagers, Ma Chau was formerly known as Tu Ma with 4 villages: Ma Thanh, Ma Thuong, Ma Dong, Ma Tay and the famous silk ferry providing silk to foreign traders at Tra Nhieu port - Hoi An. In the 80s and 90s of the last century, Ma Chau, like many other craft villages in the locality, had to face ups and downs that seemed difficult to overcome, and some villagers even had to leave their hometowns to make a living elsewhere. However, now with the policies on developing craft villages of the State and local authorities, Ma Chau craft village has been revived. Ma Chau silk products have really attracted tourists, especially international visitors. From scarves, lovely handbags to lanterns in Hoi An ancient town, all are made from Ma Chau silk. Mr. Nguyen Huu - the owner of a relatively large production facility in Ma Chau said that his family has been involved in silk weaving for 9 generations. Like everyone in the village, he strongly believes in the sustainability of the traditional craft passed down by his ancestors. Moreover, with the convenient traffic conditions connecting the two world cultural heritages of My Son and Hoi An, tourists now have the opportunity to participate in attractive craft village tours on this traffic route. This is also a factor promoting the close connection between tourism benefits and traditional craft preservation.

Each region has its own unique profession, but nowhere in Quang Nam has such a variety of traditional crafts as Hoi An town. That's why the program "Every day as an old town resident" with a tour of craft villages and making traditional products by hand attracts so many tourists, such as making pottery in Thanh Ha, making lanterns, growing vegetables in Tra Que, all of which have their own unique identity. Thanh Ha pottery village has developed for 500 years, but at times people have forgotten that Thanh Ha has a very unique pottery making profession. However, with the dedication of the village elders, Thanh Ha pottery has gradually been restored. Ms. Nguyen Thi Duoc - Thanh Ha people still call her Mrs. Phu - is 83 years old this year, but her ingenuity and expertise in the profession have made her one of the best artisans in the village.


Stories about the profession, the family's pottery tradition and the passing on of the profession to the younger generation are always mentioned by her with great enthusiasm. In addition to developing the profession based on tourism, the artisans of Thanh Ha pottery village still want to find a solid direction for their products such as producing sophisticated ceramic art products for export and serving the restoration and construction of ancient architectural works in Hoi An. The most typical image of Hoi An is probably the old town and lanterns. The shimmering light of colorful lanterns on the full moon night has become very special to every tourist when coming to Hoi An. Now many people in Hoi An know how to make lanterns, including children and young people. For Hoi An residents, making lanterns or any other traditional craft must originate from love and passion. Because of the unique values ​​of the traditional craft, recently Hoi An town has officially requested the People's Committee of Quang Nam province to allow the use of the place name Hoi An to prepare a dossier to register for exclusive protection of the collective trademark "Hoi An lantern". [69]

2.3.3. Lessons learned for Thua Thien Hue province in developing traditional craft villages for tourism

Based on the experience of some provinces in Japan and Thailand and some provinces and cities nationwide in developing LNTT associated with tourism services, some lessons can be drawn for Thua Thien Hue province to refer to and apply in the process of developing LNTT associated with tourism services commensurate with the potential and requirements for tourism development of the province, specifically:

Firstly, developing non-tariff barriers to serve tourism must be associated with modern tourism development trends, specifically:

- In a modern tour program, taking tourists to tourist attractions for sightseeing, shopping and experience is necessary.

- There is close cooperation between the tourism industry and exhibitors of national and local LNTT products.

- Effectively exploit the program "connecting local with global".


Second, honoring artisans, while focusing on training and fostering human resources in rural areas according to market requirements and the development of non-traditional tourism products, specifically:

- Focus on developing human resources capable of continuing to develop traditional handicrafts serving tourism in terms of awareness and value of preserving traditional handicrafts from primary school level; create conditions for children to become familiar with traditional production methods, technologies, materials... from a young age to create a correct understanding of the value of traditional handicrafts serving tourism in the future. From there, we can create a passion for the young generation to preserve and develop traditional handicrafts.

- Encourage and guide artisans to accept passing on their profession to the next generation to preserve and maintain the existence of traditional crafts in its true sense.

- There is a reasonable benefit allocation mechanism among the entities participating in the work of developing sustainable tourism services.

Third, it is necessary to instruct residents in LNTT serving tourism on how to do tourism, so that they can approach the modern market as well as tourists coming to LNTT to visit and experience, contributing to creating the attractiveness of LNTT.

Fourth, gradually build product brands for each craft village serving tourism according to the motto "one craft village, one product" by:

- Review and approve traditional craft village products accurately to officially recognize traditional craft village products.

- In each specific period, there must be a guarantee policy for traditional craft village products, creating favorable conditions for traditional craft villages to develop in the direction of each craft village having one product.

- Encourage and enhance the creativity of workers in building and developing the image of traditional craft villages. Developing traditional craft villages to serve tourism must meet the requirements of market economy laws. At the same time, there are many forms of harmoniously combining tourism activities with traditional craft villages effectively.


Chapter 3

CURRENT STATUS OF TRADITIONAL CRAFT VILLAGES SERVING TOURISM IN THUA THIEN HUE PROVINCE


3.1. POTENTIAL FOR DEVELOPING TRADITIONAL CRAFT VILLAGES FOR TOURISM IN THUA THIEN HUE PROVINCE

3.1.1. Situation of traditional craft villages in Thua Thien Hue province

Hue is located in the common space and landscape of Vietnamese villages with the common Vietnamese handicraft activities. The system of statues, which is the means to serve the royal court, the aristocracy, mandarins, the upper class... together with the traditional folk occupations and craft villages, has met most of the people's needs and created the characteristics of Hue handicraft products. Since Hue became the capital of the whole country, becoming a place where economic exchange sources are concentrated, a place where mandarins, nobles, the upper class... have been concentrated, the demand and taste for consuming handicraft products has increased and gradually become more sophisticated. To meet the needs of society at the same time, craftsmen in Hue have sought ways to display and demonstrate their skillful hands on the products to raise them to a "noble level", and more specifically to satisfy the needs of "high-class" customers or the direct rulers in their residential area [72].

From the above facts, the Hue capital under the Nguyen Dynasty had handicraft products formed from the requirements of the royal court, they existed as achievements from the talented and skillful hands of skilled craftsmen everywhere. Those products were the quintessence of the era, in which the feudal class at that time had the task of gathering talents to create works that were symbolic of the country's fine arts in a historical period, becoming typical faces of the level of development of Vietnamese handicrafts at that time.

With the evolution of traditional handicrafts in Thua Thien Hue


Post-feudalism has shown that some traditional crafts and products disappeared with the decline of the Nguyen Dynasty; such as painting in the Imperial Palace, making elephant harnesses, horse jewelry, carriage making, gunsmithing, gunsmithing, horse-tail weaving, and gold-paper painting...

Some crafts disappeared due to loss of tradition such as brocade weaving, crystal making, bamboo carving, enamel making... Some crafts were lost due to limited market demand or other fluctuations, such as Doc So paper village; Phu Cam weaving village, Duong No, Kim Long, An Cuu; Cho Cong thread village; Phu Vang brocade embroidery; Mau Tai gold and brass wire village; Phuoc Tich pottery village; An Thuan green rice village; My Loi weaving village... Some craft villages still exist today, but the level of development is not the same. For example, My Xuyen wood carving village; Trieu Son conical hat village, Dong Di, Tay Ho, Phu Cam; Hien Luong blacksmith village, Da Le heel village, Thanh Tien paper flower village, Sinh painting village (Lai An), An Truyen banner village, Bao La weaving village, Thuy Lap, Lai Thanh, Ha Thanh; Van Cu vermicelli production village, O Sa; Thuy Phu, Nam Thanh brick and tile production village,...

Through many changes, due to many reasons, the traditional craft villages of Thua Thien Hue are increasingly fading away. From the statistics of documents to reality, that number has decreased a lot. Of course, there are also professions that have eliminated themselves according to the development of history, but there are also many cases that no longer exist and develop due to many subjective reasons.

In localities in Thua Thien Hue province, there are currently 88 craft villages, of which 25 are serving tourism, divided into 6 groups of craft villages associated with specific product groups such as: rattan and bamboo weaving, conical hats, paper paintings and paper flowers, fired pottery, fine art woodwork, bronze casting. (see Appendix 2).

Depending on each product group, the number of entities participating in the production


The outstanding is different, because each type of product has different properties, production techniques, supply and demand in the market... In the LNTT serving tourism in Thua Thien Hue province, the number of subjects participating in production in the period 2008 - 2012 includes more than 2,000 subjects, specifically shown in Table 3.1 as follows:

Table 3.1: Number of entities participating in production at tourism service establishments

in Thua Thien Hue province


Product group name of LNTTPVDL

Year 2008

Year 2009

Year 2010

2011

2012

SL (subject)

TL (%)

SL

(subject)

TL (%)

SL

(subject)

TL (%)

SL

(subject)

TL (%)

SL

(subject)

TL (%)

1. Bamboo and rattan

307

16.5

327

16.5

397

19.1

419

19.2

507

21.3

2. Conical hat

1,273

68.7

1,374

69.4

1,390

67.2

1,470

67.3

1,574

66.1

3. Paper paintings and

paper flower

90

4.9

95

4.8

101

4.8

110

5.1

114

4.8

4. Fired ceramics

5

0.3

5

0.3

5

0.2

5

0.2

5

0.2

5. Wood art

137

7.4

139

7.0

140

6.8

140

6.4

140

5.9

6. Bronze casting

40

2.2

40

2.0

40

1.9

40

1.8

40

1.7

Total

1,852

100

1,980

100

2,073

100

2,184

100

2,380

100

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Quang Nam Provinces Experience in Restoring and Developing Traditional Craft Villages Associated with Modern Tourism Development Trends

(Source: NCS calculation results from [56])

Thus, it can be seen that the group of conical hat products has the highest number of entities participating in production at tourism service establishments among the 6 product groups, specifically in 2008 there were 1,273 entities, accounting for 68.7%, by 2012 it increased to 1,574 entities but only accounted for 66.1%. Meanwhile, the group of fired ceramic products has the lowest number of entities participating in production (there are 5 entities, accounting for 0.3%), unchanged over the years from 2008 to 2012. The group of rattan and bamboo products has the second highest number of entities participating in production among the 6 product groups, specifically in 2008 there were 307 entities, accounting for 16.5%, by 2012 it increased to 507 entities, accounting for 21.3%. The remaining product groups include paper paintings and paper flowers, fine art woodwork, and bronze casting, in which the production participants only accounted for about 2.2% - 7.4% in 2008 and


By 2012, this figure fluctuated between 1.7% and 5.9%.

There is a difference in the number of entities participating in production for each product group at the LNGTT serving tourism in Thua Thien Hue province because: for product groups with large, fixed production scale and nature, difficult to convert to other industries such as pottery, fine art wood and bronze casting, the number of entities participating in production and business is low, almost unchanged over the years; on the contrary, product groups such as rattan weaving, conical hats, paper paintings and paper flowers have a number of entities participating in production and business that fluctuates strongly, with an increasing trend over the years because of the nature and scale of production that are easy to change, easy to invest, fast capital turnover, and increasing market demand... This situation partly reflects the level of interest and investment of production and business entities, depending on each different product group at the LNGTT serving tourism in Thua Thien Hue province, which shows the different development trends of each different product group in the future.

3.1.2. Main resources facilitating the development of traditional craft villages serving tourism in Thua Thien Hue province

3.1.2.1. Cultural characteristics in traditional craft villages serving tourism in

Thua Thien Hue province

It can be said that, through the handicraft products of traditional craft villages and industries in Thua Thien Hue, it can be affirmed that: traditional craft villages in Thua Thien Hue are closely associated with the development of Vietnam's rural agricultural society with the poetic and lyrical features of nature and the countryside; the ancient and quiet features of the architectural landscape, the elegance and discretion emanating from the style of people in the craft villages are still preserved as a traditional feature through many ups and downs, fluctuations of history and life.

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