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Solutions to Diversify and Improve the Quality of Dong Sen Ecotourism Products


Install an open sewer system to automatically supply and drain water to Dong Sen, with the aim of saving water pumping costs, regulating water levels and leading alluvium into Dong Sen.

Installing a water pumping station system using a high-capacity electric motor instead of a generator for Dong Sen, both saving costs and protecting the environment.

Build toilets at parking lots, restaurants, and convenient locations.

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Upgrading the floating restaurant in the style of traditional floating houses in the old South,

using solid and semi-solid materials, with rooms for high-end tourists, group tourists, independent tourists with different equipment standards. It can be in the style of Bau Sen - My An restaurant and Tram Chim restaurant, or it can combine ancient traditional architecture with modern architecture, such as Royal Dragon restaurant (Address: Royal Dragon Restaurant, 35/22 M4 Bangna - Trad Road, Bangkok 10260, Thailand).

Solutions to Diversify and Improve the Quality of Dong Sen Ecotourism Products

Build a walking bridge to admire the scenery of Dong Sen. The architecture must be suitable for the poetic and romantic landscape of Thap Muoi countryside. Materials and structure ensure absolute safety for visitors.

Building a guesthouse on Dong Sen follows the traditional floating house architecture of the Dong Thap Muoi region. The architecture and materials must be suitable for the Dong Sen landscape, creating an impressive impression for visitors. In addition, it is necessary to build a space for visitors to "sit in meditation" and "practice yoga" and enjoy the scenery on Dong Sen.

* Development category

Open a tourist bus route from Cao Lanh city to Dong Sen to serve tourists, free of charge when using the service at the tourist area.

Expanding Go Thap Ring Road to Dong Sen with 4m wide concrete to asphalt road, accommodating 45-seat vehicles to the tourist area.

Open a new shortcut connecting directly from Go Thap Ring Road to Go Thap Road, to shorten the distance from Dong Sen to Go Thap relic site, visitors can easily walk from Dong Sen to Go Thap tourist area.


Build parking lots and tourist reception houses on roads and waterways to Dong Sen.

Build a wharf for cruise ships along the Go Thap Ring Canal, both creating a landscape and combining it with a point of sale for specialties and souvenirs for tourists, which can be seen at artificial floating market tourist attractions in Thailand.

Build a bridge connecting the Ring Road through the Go Thap Ring Canal to the Dong Sen dike. The bridge architecture must be beautiful and suitable for the Dong Sen landscape. The bridge can combine the exploitation of the culture of "love locks" and "love arches" to attract young people to Dong Sen.

Investing in building entertainment areas for adults and children on land and in water, including traditional Southern entertainment.

Building a lotus fashion show stage, combined with traditional folk music, amateur music, "Ho Dong Thap", bringing Ho Dong Thap to serve tourists has both promotional and conservation meaning. In addition, combining modern music and dance with the lotus image, serving tourists. You can refer to the program and traditional cultural performance stage of Siam Niramit in Bangkok, Thailand (Address: 55/81 Moo 5, Chalermprakiet road, Rassada, Muang, Bangkok, Thailand)

Open an outdoor Southern folk museum, recreating the culture of the garden, displaying household items, ancient agricultural tools, and scenes of daily life such as rice planting, plowing, tree planting, lotus harvesting, canoeing, and fishing. You can refer to the Open Air Museum of Wooden Architecture of Suzdal, Russia.

Building the Lotus Tower represents the cultural symbol of Dong Thap Muoi, combined with a fountain and artistic lighting, at the central location of Dong Sen. You can refer to the Water Fountain type in Singapore (Suntech city - Singapore).

* Shopping service category

Recreate a small floating market on the Go Thap Ring Canal, with trading activities and community activities of the riverside residents. Can study and refer to the model


pictures of Pattaya Floating Market, Ayutthaya Floating Market in Thailand, Venice Floating Market - Italy, or Little Venice Floating Market London, UK.

Open a supermarket selling specialties of the Western region, focusing on lotus products, fresh fruits, dried fruits, honey, candy, traditional Southern cakes, and dried fish products, fish sauce, handicrafts made of rattan, bamboo, leaves, water hyacinth, products that are strengths of the locality.

The author recommends visiting Thongthip Agricultural Products Supermarket in Thailand for tourists (Address: Baankanom Thongthip, 79/18 Village No 11, Bangpha, Sriracha district, Chonburi 20110, Thailand), and Jeju Orange Chocolate Supermarket selling chocolate confectionery made from tangerines and tropical fruits for tourists visiting Jeju Island - Korea (Address: San 5

- 7, Hannam-Ri, Namwon-Up, Seogwipo-Si, Jeju-Do, Korea).

* Study area

Recreating Kim Lien Sen Village, the hometown of beloved Uncle Ho, with relics from his childhood, the museum will be the connecting point with the relic site of Pho Bang Nguyen Sinh Sac's Mausoleum.

Build a museum to display cultural and historical relics of the Dong Thap Muoi region and the revolutionary tradition of Dong Thap Province.

Open a museum to display lotus varieties, collect lotus varieties in the world. Collaborate with scientists to breed new lotus varieties to serve production and the needs of tourists to grow miniature lotus. In addition, display symbolic images of lotus flowers through the ages, lotus archeology, architecture, lotus reliefs, lotus-shaped objects, lotus fashion, to serve domestic and foreign tourists to visit, study, and research.

* Commercial lotus growing area

Building a statue of Buddha Shakyamuni in the middle of a commercial lotus plantation aims to bring spiritual culture to attract pilgrims.

Commercial lotus growing area should combine duck and teal farming and fish farming to create a rustic feel and fishing and entertainment needs for tourists.


3.3.5. Solutions to diversify and improve the quality of Dong Sen ecotourism products

Objective: to assess the current status of Dong Sen ecotourism product quality, on that basis to develop an investment plan to improve the product. Based on the strengths of tourism resources and actual economic conditions of the locality to propose solutions to improve the quality and diversify Dong Sen ecotourism products.

Content of implementation

Adding more Southern dishes of natural origin such as free-range chicken, home-raised pork, fish, freshwater shrimp, processed in combination with lotus seeds, lotus roots, lotus shoots, the menu must include Dong Thap dishes that have won culinary awards at culinary festivals.

Stainless steel tables and chairs serving tourists must be replaced with bamboo and cajuput wood, the design must have a rural feel, giving tourists the feeling of being close to nature, living in the countryside of the past.

Glass cups, plastic cups, and white ceramic bowls currently in use must be replaced with antique ceramic ones with lotus-shaped patterns, creating a unique cultural feature for Dong Sen.

In the river area, the sampan and three-leaf boat are not strange to the residents of the river area, but for urban residents and foreign tourists, it is an experience. Therefore, we must create a unique sampan product for the Dong Sen area, with a design for the "Dong Sen sampan" that creates an impression on tourists. Therefore, we must invest in building new traditional local sampans, combined with lotus patterns to create luxury and appeal to tourists.

Reenact river activities, traditional Southern river games, rowing boats, catching fish in lotus ponds, harvesting lotus shoots into the type of tourism experience where tourists become farmers, aiming to attract foreign visitors, urban visitors and high school students.

Investing in beautifully designed Ao Dai and Ao Ba Ba Nam Bo with many styles, colors, materials, and patterns for tourists to rent and take pictures when visiting Dong Sen. In addition to renting, there are also beautifully designed products for sale to tourists.


Boldly invest in the growing "homestay" tourism model to serve tourists. This model is attracting tourists, especially European tourists.

Investing in modern technology in the production of lotus products such as: canned lotus root pickles, canned lotus root pickles, bottled lotus milk that can be preserved at normal temperature, has a long shelf life, various types of dried lotus products with many flavors, lotus candy, lotus chocolate, functional foods extracted from the nutritional components of lotus, extracting lotus leaf essence into functional foods.

Diversify souvenir products with lotus images such as key chains, lotus symbols, and Southern specialties to sell to tourists.

Relocate modern concrete-built accommodation out of the Dong Sen eco-tourism area.

Move rice fields out of lotus growing areas to create a unified space. The Lotus Field is vast and immense.

The rice fields can still be kept, but the location of the rice fields is at the end of the lotus growing area to give visitors the feeling of a vast Lotus Field, with rice fields in the distance, creating a vivid picture of the Lotus Field.

3.3.6. Environmental protection solutions

Objective: to preserve the landscape of Dong Sen, the ecological environment, to minimize activities that pollute the natural environment, water environment, air environment, soil environment, noise, and affect Dong Sen ecotourism activities.

Task to be performed

Invest in a system to treat domestic wastewater, restaurant wastewater, Dong Sen wastewater, and clean sanitary waste before discharging into the environment.

Invest in waste collection and treatment systems, classify organic waste for recycling to use as fertilizer for lotus cultivation, and send inorganic waste to recycling facilities for reuse.

Clean up the sightseeing area, raise chickens and ducks in a separate area, away from the food preparation area, dining area, and lotus product processing area.


Install trash bins at tourist attractions, scenic spots, and tourist attractions in Dong Sen.

Upgrade toilets, provide clean water, toilet paper, and regularly have staff "take care" of cleaning and deodorizing.

Raise awareness of the community and tourists in protecting the local ecological tourism environment.

In the long term, research and invest in rainwater collection systems and wastewater recycling systems to supply irrigation. The purpose of the investment is to prevent climate change, drought, and water shortages from the Mekong River.

3.3.7. Solutions for linking Dong Sen ecotourism activities

Objective: Unify and synchronize tourism business activities and tourism product quality standards among households. Link to build tourist routes inside and outside the province.

Task to be performed

* Linking households in Dong Sen

In the immediate future, establish a Dong Sen Ecotourism Management Board to link households together to operate in a unified development orientation according to the community tourism model. Unify tourism products, prices, services, and brand identity.

Households support each other in business activities, share experiences, customer sources, and share common profits.

Long-term tourism in Dong Sen must unify tourism activities according to the development plan of the Tourism Development Project of Dong Thap Province and the general regulations of the Community Tourism Management Board.

* Linking tourist destinations

Dong Sen in particular and Dong Thap in general are located in the Mekong Delta region, have many sources of visitors and many similar tourism products, so connecting routes is very convenient.

The number of tourists visiting Dong Sen mainly on holidays, Tet, weekends, and Go Thap festival days, so the consolidation of the eco-tourism area


Dong Sen and Go Thap tourist areas will bring great efficiency because tourists will enjoy comprehensive, rich, diverse and attractive tourism products.

To fully promote the strengths of the landscape and unique culture in the locality, as well as to stabilize the output of lotus products, increase the added value of lotus products, improve and enrich local farmers, Dong Sen needs to expand other types of tourism such as spiritual tourism, river tourism, culinary tourism, beauty tourism, medical tourism, shopping tourism associated with Dong Sen eco-tourism products.

Build and develop tourist routes in the province into a cluster of routes such as: Dong Sen - Go Thap route with Gao Giong tourist area, Relic site of Cu Pho Bang Nguyen Sinh Sac's tomb, Tram Chim National Park, Binh Thanh floating village with a common entrance ticket for a cluster of routes, to share tourist resources, and develop all tourist destinations in the province synchronously.

Dong Sen can link tourist routes within the province and neighboring provinces in the region with a common entrance ticket policy for a cluster of diverse thematic routes in line with the tourism development orientation of Dong Thap and the strategic development orientations of the Mekong Delta region.

Dong Thap tourism needs to cooperate with international travel companies and tourist attractions inside and outside the province to build road and waterway routes to attract international tourists connecting Vietnam and Cambodia:

Route 1: Ho Chi Minh City - Dong Sen - Cao Lanh, Relic Site of the Mausoleum of Vice President Nguyen Sinh Sac, Tan Quy Dong Flower Garden, Huynh Thuy Le Ancient House (Sa Dec), Long Xuyen - Tinh Bien Border Gate - Cambodia.

Route 2: Ho Chi Minh City - My Tho - Con Phung (Ben Tre) - Vinh Long - Sa Dec - Go Thap, Dong Sen - Xeo Quyt - Tram Chim - Binh Thanh floating village - Sam Mountain (An Giang) - Dinh Ba International Border Gate - Cambodia.

Route 3: Ho Chi Minh City - My Tho - Con Phung (Ben Tre province) - Go Thap, Dong Sen - Tram Chim - Sam Mountain (An Giang), Dinh Ba International Border Gate - Cambodia


Route 4: Ho Chi Minh City - Go Thap, Dong Sen - Tram Chim - Lang Cu Sac - Gao Giong - Xeo Quyt - Binh Thanh floating village - Sam Mountain (An Giang) - Tinh Bien border gate - Cambodia.

In addition to pure sightseeing programs, Dong Sen should cooperate with travel companies and event organizers to develop MICE tourism programs, experiential tourism, educational tourism, and weekend resort tourism for office workers, young people, and students.

3.3.8. Solutions to increase added value for lotus products

Purpose: to increase the added value of lotus products from harvesting and selling raw products to deep processing, in order to stabilize the output consumption of lotus products and increase community income.

Task to be performed

Invest in a production line to select good lotus seeds for export, package them in branded packaging, to increase product value instead of selling raw products as is currently the case.

Investing in lotus milk production technology, exporting nutritious heat-clearing water from lotus roots and seeds has a longer shelf life and can be preserved under normal temperature conditions.

Diverse dried lotus seed products with many flavors such as shrimp flavor, BBQ flavor, chocolate flavor, vanilla flavor, cheese flavor instead of just salted dried lotus seeds, butter dried lotus seeds.

Investing in technology to produce chocolate and candy with many types of Southern fruit flavors such as lotus seed chocolate, durian chocolate, tangerine chocolate, banana chocolate, mango chocolate, becoming Dong Thap's own specialty products.

Cooperate with pharmaceutical companies to produce functional foods with nutritional ingredients extracted from lotus seeds, roots, and leaves.

3.3.9. Commercial solutions

Objective: increase revenue for tourism activities, stabilize prices and markets for lotus products, as well as create trust for the community and businesses to confidently invest in tourism and production activities.

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