- The animal composition is not rich, but there are enough animal components both on land such as: Chicken, duck, pig, cow, buffalo, goat, ... and aquatic species: snakehead fish, catfish, perch, red tilapia, shrimp ... This is also a quite favorable condition for economic development, increasing people's income, and at the same time creating special dishes to develop river tourism such as catching fish in ponds, grilled snakehead fish.
2.1.2.2. Human tourism resources
a. Historical and cultural relics
Although not a province famous for its cultural and historical traditions, Vinh Long also has many cultural and historical relics serving tourism such as: Van Thanh Temple, Mausoleum of General Dieu Bat, memorial area of the late Chairman of the Council of Ministers Pham Hung, relic of the banyan tree at the right gate of Long Ho citadel...
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b. Traditional festivals
- Ky Yen Festival
The Ky Yen ceremony usually lasts two days and one night, including the main rituals: the ceremony to invite the god's decree; the ceremony to worship the God of Agriculture, the Temple, and the martyrs; the Tuc Yet ceremony; the Chanh Te ceremony; the ceremony to worship the ancestors, the descendants, and the deceased members; the ceremony to send the god's decree. The purpose of the Ky Yen ceremony is to worship the tutelary god to pray for national peace and security, and for the prosperity and well-being of the village.
Communal houses all worship the ancestors and descendants who were the ones who contributed to the establishment of the village or spent money to build the first public welfare projects, leaving an example for future generations. Therefore, in general, the Ky Yen festival has the meaning of a village's death anniversary.
- Temple Offering Ceremony
The temple worship ceremony is a folk ceremony, both men and women, young and old can come to worship. The organizers of the worship ceremony can be an elder, a hamlet chief, a farmer, or a woman. The offerings represent the hearts of the villagers.
The temple worshiping program is a condensed Ky Yen ceremony program. Depending on the object of worship of the temple, it can be divided into three types of temple worshiping: Ong temple worshiping ceremony, Co Hon temple worshiping ceremony, Ba temple worshiping ceremony.
Festivals at communal houses and temples attract many pilgrims every year.
- Chol Chnam Thmay Festival
It is the Khmer New Year celebration, held in the middle of the third lunar month every year. This is also the time of transition between the dry season and the rainy season, the time when agricultural production begins according to the traditional Khmer calendar, so the Chol Chnam Thmay festival is also synonymous with celebrating the new crop of the year. The Chol Chnam Thmay festival is one of the most important festivals of the year, held at pagodas and in each family.
- Oc Oom Boc Festival
Also known as the moon worshiping ceremony of the Khmer people in Vinh Long. The Oc Oom Boc ceremony is held in Tra On and Vung Liem districts, where many Khmer people live. It takes place on October 15 (lunar calendar) every year.
c. Traditional craft villages
The province currently has 17 craft villages that meet the criteria (including 4 traditional craft villages), including: 07 traditional craft villages producing bricks and pottery and 01 traditional craft village producing ornamental flowers and seedlings; 03 craft villages weaving water hyacinth mats; 04 craft villages growing and spinning sedge cores; 01 village making rice paper; 01 village making rice paper rolls. These craft villages and traditional occupations have contributed to shifting the local economic structure, creating jobs, and increasing income for idle laborers in rural areas.
Developing craft villages in association with tourism aims to exploit the potential and strengths of the eco-tourism areas of gardens and rivers, combining visits to traditional craft villages, joint ventures and partnerships with provinces in the region. From there, build long-term inter-provincial tours to serve both domestic and foreign visitors on the basis of preserving and promoting traditional national cultural identity; develop many forms and models of tourism in both sightseeing and resort tourism.
* Other human resources
-Folk culture and arts
Due to the terrain and history, the three ethnic groups Kinh, Khmer, and Hoa have lived here for a long time and have blended together to create a unique culture for this land.
Vinh Long has many types of folk literature such as: Van Tien poetry, opera, folk song, Hue Tinh singing, Cai Luong...
-Population and ethnicity
+ Population: According to statistics, the average population of Vinh Long province in 2010 was 1,031,994 people, an increase of more than 30 thousand people compared to 10 years ago or equivalent to the population of 2 communes today. The average population density is 698 people/km2 , ranking 2nd in the Mekong Delta after Can Tho city, 1.7 times the average density of the Mekong Delta and 2.8 times the average density of the whole country.
+ Ethnicity: Like many provinces in the Mekong Delta, Vinh Long is a province with a multi-ethnic structure. In addition to the Kinh, other ethnic groups account for about 2.7% of the province's population, of which the Khmer account for nearly 2.1%, the Chinese and other ethnic groups account for about 0.6%. While the Kinh are evenly distributed in all places, the Khmer are concentrated in some remote communes in the districts of Tam Binh, Vung Liem, Binh Minh, Tra On, the Chinese are concentrated in the city and towns.
- Special cuisine
+ Vinh Long burnt fish dish: Burnt fish is a specialty of a small area located on the Hau River, Tich Thien commune (Tra On - Vinh Long), the area where clear water and brackish water meet.
+ Cuisine and products of Tra On: Tra On is a fertile, rich land of Vinh Long province, with deep rivers and flowing water, hard-working people, so this place has many products, specialties as well as famous traditional craft villages that attract tourists and are also meaningful gifts that tourists can give to relatives and friends.
Rice paper rolls in Luc Si Thanh island are a product that tourists often buy as gifts. In the past, people only used seasonal rice to produce rice paper rolls, but now it has been replaced by high-quality rice.
Fish sauces such as snakehead fish sauce, linh fish sauce, and snakehead fish sauce, the most delicious of which is Hau River snakehead fish sauce, are also of interest to tourists.
2.1.3. Infrastructure
2.1.3.1. Transport system
a. Road transport
The road traffic system in Vinh Long province includes National Highways, Provincial Roads (PRD), Urban Roads (URD), District Roads (DRD) and Commune Roads (CRD) forming a widespread and reasonably distributed road traffic network. Vinh Long currently has 5 National Highways (NH): QL1A, QL53, QL57, QL54 and QL80. National Highways 1A, 53, 54, with a total length of 131 km, of which National Highway 1A is the main road of the entire Mekong Delta with a length of nearly 35.36 km. Provincial roads: 31, 32, 33, 38, 39, with a total length of 139 km and 100.2 km of district roads. In addition, there are 2,061 km of rural roads. Currently, 100% of communes have car roads to the commune center and more than 90% of hamlets have roads for two-wheeled vehicles, basically eliminating monkey bridges. This is an important condition to attract tourists to the countryside, making it possible to travel in both rainy and sunny seasons.
b. Waterway transport: Along with the development of road transport, the development of inland waterway transport is currently a key task of the Transport sector. In the future, the system of waterway ports will become a connecting center with other modes of transport, contributing significantly to the development of tourism in localities.
According to the assessment survey of the transport sector, Vinh Long is also one of the provinces with the largest river system and river density in our country. However, currently, investment in waterway transport is still very limited, so the potential of inland waterway tourism has not been fully exploited.
Vinh Long has an advantage in waterway transportation because of the Hau River, Co Chien River and a dense network of canals connecting with many localities and other provinces. The waterway network in Vinh Long has over 170 km in operation, of which more than 40 km is run by the national route. In particular, the Tra On - Mang Thit route connecting the Western provinces with Ho Chi Minh City is a vital traffic route of great significance for waterway transportation in the province.
2.1.3.2. Contact information.
The information and communication sector focuses on promoting the restoration, consolidation, renovation and construction of information and communication systems to put them into operation to serve the management and operation requirements of the province. The communication system is connected to the provinces and districts. Tourists standing anywhere in Vinh Long can quickly and conveniently communicate with other areas.
a. Journalism
The province currently has 3 press agencies, the current number of press forms is 4 including: Printed newspapers; spoken newspapers; visual newspapers; electronic newspapers, the number of printed newspapers per week increased more than 5 times; the number of newspapers published increased more than 10 times; the number of TV channels increased by 1 channel; TV time increased more than 8 times; electronic newspapers increased by more than 2 agencies; the number of visitors per day is nearly 100,000, these are 2 effective channels for information and tourism promotion in the province.
b. Post and telecommunications sector
Total number of post offices by 2011: 19 post offices (including 01 level I post office, 07 level II post offices and 11 level III post offices, service radius 1.83 points/1km. Therefore, when needing to contact, tourists can travel only 1km to have a post office serving the communication for tourists.
2.1.3.3. Water supply and drainage system:
- Water supply system: In addition to investing in developing water supply systems in urban areas, water supply for daily life and production needs of households in rural areas is also of concern. By 2010, the rate of households using clean water from centralized water supply stations in urban areas reached 78% and 32% of households in rural areas.
- Drainage system construction issue: In addition to the drainage system built in 2011, Vinh Long invested more than 18 billion VND to build and repair the drainage system in Vinh Long city area. The investment in construction of this project aims to solve the problem of wastewater and surface water drainage, ensuring environmental hygiene.
environment and people's health, contributing to urban beautification, and at the same time contributing to favorable tourism development, especially in Vinh Long city area.
2.1.3.4. Other service facilities
a. Medical facilities
According to information from the General Statistics Office in 2010, Vinh Long province has 117 medical examination and treatment facilities under the Department of Health. Of which, there are 9 hospitals, 6 regional polyclinics and 102 commune and ward health stations; the total number of beds is 1,800, of which hospitals have 1,220 beds, regional polyclinics have 70 beds, and health stations have 510 beds. In early 2010, the whole province had 87/107 commune, ward and town health stations meeting 10 national standards according to the regulations of the Ministry of Health, accounting for over 81%. Ensuring quick and effective health care for people as well as tourists visiting the whole province.
b. Cultural information works
To meet the demand for cultural and information enjoyment as well as to preserve and promote the historical traditions of the province, in 2010-2011, Vinh Long province carried out many key cultural, informational and historical traditional works with many meanings on the largest scale ever. This is also considered one of the 10 typical events of Vinh Long province voted in 2011. The large works with typical meanings include: Vinh Long Provincial Party Committee Traditional House; Mau Than Victory Monument Park; and the memorial site of late Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet in Vung Liem town. In addition, cultural and information works at the commune level are also given attention. Currently, the whole province has about 35 communal cultural houses with functional rooms such as: reading rooms, halls, traditional rooms, information and broadcasting rooms... The construction of communal and ward cultural and information houses spread across the province plays an important role in providing information, creating conditions for cultural and social activities for residents and tourists when needed at all the above locations.
2.1.4. Tourism development policy
- Stabilize the organizational structure of the Tourism Development Steering Committee, add a team of experts and amend the working regulations to promote the effectiveness of the Steering Committee.
- Coordinate with relevant sectors to organize and implement tourism development orientations to create favorable conditions for the activities of travel companies, tourist attractions, and tourist areas.
- Implement investment incentive and preferential policies and legal documents related to tourism to ensure an equal and lawful business environment.
- Coordinate well in incorporating tourism development orientations and programs related to industries and localities into industry programs and plans.
- Invest capital in infrastructure development to tourism planning areas with rural transport programs in localities with tourism development planning.
- Gradually establish a reporting and information system via the network between enterprises and state management agencies to facilitate quick access to information and improve the effectiveness of management and development work.
- The establishment of Vinh Long Tourism Association has been put into operation early to promote its effectiveness, further develop the quality of operations, operational capacity and promote the image of Vinh Long tourism.
2.1.5. General assessment
a. Strengths
- Vinh Long has a particularly favorable geographical location for tourism development, located right in the center of the Mekong Delta, which is a favorable condition for tourism development cooperation with neighboring provinces.
- Natural tourism resources are quite favorable for eco-tourism, river tourism, and home-stay tourism. If fully exploited and developed with specific tourism products, it will bring significant results to the development of tourism in Vinh Long province.
The plant ecosystems and garden ecosystems on the island are currently attracting much attention from both domestic and foreign tourists, especially suitable for picnics, camping activities as well as adventure activities to explore nature... therefore, Vinh Long has many conditions to develop around these activities.
- Human tourism resources are quite rich and diverse with national-level cultural and historical relics and provincial-level cultural and historical relics, which are favorable for developing cultural and historical sightseeing tourism.
Vinh Long is also a place to preserve and develop traditional craft villages: red pottery village, bamboo weaving village, rice paper village... and in today's context, it also contributes effectively to tourism development.
- The infrastructure system and technical facilities are generally quite complete, the transportation system is widely developed from road to waterway; communication is strongly developed, telephone waves are covered throughout the province to best serve the communication needs of tourists; the electricity, water and medical services system is spread from the central area to the communes and wards to ensure the best service in taking care of the health of the people and even tourists.
b. Difficulties and limitations
- Natural tourism resources are still limited and underdeveloped, and their potential for tourism activities has not been fully exploited.
- The infrastructure system and technical facilities are quite developed but not really complete. Although the transportation system is spread throughout the province, the quality of the transportation system is still weak, not ensuring that all routes can be used by 4-wheel vehicles.
- Although traditional craft villages have developed, they have not created unique characteristics to help develop tourism activities, and have not built a tourism brand for a separate craft village.
- Although the health care system has developed widely, it has not yet ensured the number of doctors and beds for medical examination and treatment.