The old town revives activity, the rows of restaurants along the beach are cleaned up, ecological gardeners are planting more flowers, all waiting for visitors to return.
Hoi An City begins its bustling days when colorful hot air balloons are arranged in a park along the Hoai River, on March 24. Many hotels have opened their doors to welcome guests, after more than two years of abandonment due to the epidemic. The cafes are busier. The old town wasn’t too gloomy.
Hot air balloons at Hoai river square, March 25. Photo: Dac Thanh
Since 10 days ago, the coastal restaurant chain Cua Dai has hired people to clean, rearrange tables and chairs, install outdoor lights; Some shops buy more artificial grass to sprinkle on the sand to make it cleaner and more beautiful. This beach is usually crowded in summer.
Nguyen Le Quyen, 25, manager of Hoa Hung restaurant, said that there was a time when restaurants served 500 guests at the same time, but then operated moderately due to landslides and the Covid-19 epidemic. “Now the shop is open again, but the customers are not there, one day they can only sell a few coconuts,” he said.
The restaurant has contacted seafood suppliers previously and built a new fresh seafood area for customers to choose from. “We are committed to selling at listed prices, ensuring the quality of each dish to serve our customers. Everyone is affected by the Covid-19 outbreak, so we sell at a reasonable and affordable price,” he added.
The Cua Dai beach restaurant chain has been cleaned up and ready to welcome guests. Photo: Nguyen Dong
This year, Hoi An organized many tours to experience green tourism products. Thanh Dong Organic Vegetable Village (Cam Thanh Commune), with an area of more than one hectare, is in the tourist destination chain. In recent days, people have kept their farm jobs and hope that customers will soon return to being “only growing vegetables already joining tourism”.
Together with the vegetable village of Tra Que, Thanh Dong is an attractive destination for farmers with experience as farmers, markets and cooking lessons. Dinh Thi Mien, 68 years old, one of 10 households growing vegetables in Thanh Dong said that in the past, vegetable gardens were tourism and selling to restaurants. Their income is also better, around 6-7 million VND. / month. The Covid-19 outbreak struck, the garden was forced to close.
In her 400-square-meter garden, Bu Mien grows various varieties of basil, perilla, chili, vegetables, eggplant, zucchini, lemon … “Hearing that guests will come to the vegetable garden, our relatives have planted flowers as guides. For example. on both sides of the road, intercropping more plants to keep the vegetable gardens green,” he said.
Miss Mien and many people in Thanh Dong planted flowers to invite guests back to the organic vegetable garden to experience being a farmer. Photo: Nguyen Dong
Nguyen Van Chuc, 66, Manager of the Thanh Dong Cooperative, said that delegates came to call to prepare to bring guests back. “We want guests to come. But we are living with an epidemic, so we are also a bit worried because farmers in the garden are over 60 years old, need a plan to ensure people’s safety,” he said.
After being unemployed for the past two years, Mr. Le Viet Nhien, 55, from Cam Chau ward, still keeps a buffalo weighing more than a tonne, which he usually takes to accompany him on experience tours for guests to ride. “I’m sure tourism will pick up soon, so I keep the buffalo every day and make friends with foreigners,” he said.
Recently, there were several people in Do Son, Hai Phong, who asked to buy his buffalo to fight, but he flatly refused. “Visitors love this experience so much, I have to save it to help make Hoi An more famous,” said Nhien.
Tran Van Khoa, Director of Jack Tran Tours Hoi An Tourism Company, a leader in building ecotourism, said that although there were no Western tourists and not on summer vacation, there was a large delegation of tourists. . Travel companies in Australia have reached out to their partners in Vietnam, booking hotels and restaurants in advance for the month of June.
“The year of national tourism in Hoi An opens at the time of the new normal, with many special programs, which is expected to be a turning point to help revive tourism in Quang Nam and neighboring areas such as Da Nang and Thua Thien. – Hue, and at the same time hope to revive tourism economy in Vietnam,” said Mr. Khoa.
According to Mr Khoa, now Hoi An as well as other regions need to launch safe and attractive destinations for tourists. Where, need to urgently recruit and retrain staff after a long break from the epidemic, many people have turned to other jobs to earn a living, to ensure service quality.
“My tour company has deployed more than 30 employees and workers (equivalent to about 80% compared to before the epidemic), and at the same time contacting vegetable farmers in Tra Que, throwing fish in Cua Dai, rowing basket boats in Bay Mau coconut village .. Everything is ready because participating in tourism is fun as well as increasing income,” said Pak Khoa.
Tourists ride bicycles to visit rice fields in Hoi An, on the afternoon of March 22. Photo: Nguyen Dong
On March 24, many events were held to commemorate the opening of the National Year of Tourism – Quang Nam 2022, such as the opening of the community tourism villages of Cam Phu and Go Noi, the program Old town view; My Son’s Night Legendary… The opening ceremony will take place on Hoi An Memories Island at 7:30 p.m. on March 26.
Quang Nam Province will host 62 events in the 2022 National Tourism Year, expecting to welcome 4.2 million visitors, revenue of 6,000 billion VND.
Nguyen Dong – Dac Thanh
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