tours to craft villages and bringing into play cultural heritage values
of handicraft villages were presented at an international seminar in
Hanoi on Oct. 4.
At the seminar, Head of the
National Administration of Tourism (NAT) Travel Department Vu The Binh
said that each heritage and traditional craft village contained
attractive and new interests for tourists.
Tourists can understand Vietnam ’s culture, beliefs and history through tours to heritages and villages, he said.
Many traditional crafts have been restored thanks to the development of traditional craft villages for tourism.
Representatives of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
in Vietnam said that JICA would assist the development of
sustainable self-reliant communities through heritage tourism.
The project which will be carried out for four years until 2014 is
intended to improve the living conditions of people in Duong Lam ancient
village in Hanoi , Phuoc Tich ancient village in the central province
of Thua Thien-Hue and Dong Hoa Hiep in the Mekong delta province of
Tien Giang .
The seminar was jointly held by
NAT and the Hanoi People’s Committee on the occasion of the Thang
Long-Hanoi International Tourism Festival, to mark the capital city’s
millennium./.
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