Sports tourism – Potential waiting to “wake up” in Hanoi
Soc Son is a diverse terrain, beautiful landscape, attracting many tourists to visit, relax, participate in cycling, jogging and climbing activities.
With the advantage of the mountainous terrain in the suburbs, many large lakes and the inner city area has many beautiful roads with unique heritage, Hanoi has great potential to develop sports tourism. However, it seems that this type has not been exploited much and is waiting to be “awakened”.
* Great opportunities for sports tourism
Soc Son is a diverse terrain, beautiful landscape, attracting many tourists to visit, relax, participate in cycling, jogging and climbing activities. Recently, Soc Son district has built a number of beautiful roads to organize a bicycle racing, jogging, climbing like Dong Quan lake roads – Lake Ca Ca – Thanh Giong Monument (11 km long ), Soc Temple – St. St. Giong (5 km long), Dong Quan lake – Soc temple (8 km long), Hoa Son lake – Ham pig lake – Lake Ca Ca – Dong Quan lake (15 km long), Ho Hoa lake Son – Ham pig lake – Thanh Giong monument (10 km long). The district has successfully organized a number of jogging and terrain racing tournaments to attract a large number of people and tourists to participate.
Moreover, in Soc Son area, there are 2 golf courses of international standards operating: Minh Tri golf course and BRG Legendhill Soc Son golf course. The complex of Soc Son Racing and entertainment complexes is preparing to deploy, when it comes into operation, it will become an international center and sports center in the northern Red River.
Vice Chairman of Soc Son District People’s Committee Do Minh Tuan said: Soc Son owns a lot of potentials and advantages to exploit and develop sports tourism. This is also a tourism product assessed by the district with great potential for exploitation and development.
Not only Soc Son but the areas of Ba Vi, Chuong My, Son Tay town, Hanoi city … also have great potential for developing sports tourism. Ba Vi district has a semi -mountainous terrain with 7 mountainous communes, especially Ba Vi National Park, with the beauty of the mountains, many waterfalls, streams, rivers and lakes, special heritage. This area can organize climbing, running and reality, over the past time, some sports tournaments have been organized to attract many participants.
Chuong My district with three plain terrain, hill and mountainous areas, three rivers: Bui river, Tich and Day river. Chuong My is also known for the Bu hill, Nam Phuong Tien commune is the place where paragliding activities are loved by young people.
Son Tay town with Dong Mo GOlf is considered one of the most beautiful golf courses in Southeast Asia with a harmonious natural scenery. Especially in Hanoi with infrastructure system for diverse sports activities, meeting international standards, which is a place that regularly organizes major tournaments. Moreover, the city center also has many beautiful roads, rich heritage systems, so it often takes place to explore the beauty of the capital. The large West Lake area is suitable for dragon boat swimming prizes …
Sports tourism is a special attraction for sports enthusiasts, while this object is increasingly crowded. Participants not only want to be physically trained but also interact with the community with their interests, experience and explore tourism where they are held. Sports tourists also have high spending ability, use many services and time to participate for many days. In particular, for large tournaments, sports activities not only attract athletes to participate but also have the presence of family members, friends and fans. This is identified as a potential tourism market and has been interested by many localities and businesses. Therefore, with the existing advantage of location, topography, infrastructure and service will open up great opportunities for the Capital Tourism industry to promote sports tourism development, attracting more and more. More than visitors to Hanoi.
*Open the potential development direction
In recent years, in Vietnam, the number of sports tournaments has appeared more and more, promoting development of sports tourism activities. Hanoi City is organizing a number of annual sports tournaments, which can be connected to tourism activities such as: Hanoi International Badminton Prize, Hanoi Newspaper Running Prize – For Peace, Marathon International Hanoi Heritage Site, or some Asian and Southeast Asian international sports events, some golf tournament to create a playground for international tourists … many large -scale tournaments can attract thousands of , even tens of thousands of guests attend.
In addition to participants in active sports tournaments, many travel businesses also quickly designed tours with sports tournaments. Or some companies also organize sports tours to discover the beauty of the Capital such as: VietFoot Travel Travel Company (VietFoot Travel) exploiting bike ride tours connecting the inner city with Hanoi suburban. “ The quintessence of Trang An – Discover the French architecture in the heart of Hanoi “,” Viet Bike Tours experience the boat and explore Co Loa citadel “; Vgreen Sustainable Travel Club (Hanoi Tourism Association) builds tours to explore Hanoi with bicycle “Vgreen Bike Tour – Essence of Trang An”; Vietnam Sustainable Tourism Investment and Development Joint Stock Company (Vietnam S.T.I.D) Building a bicycle tour “Thang Long Night – Hanoi” …
General Director of Flamingo Redtours Travel Joint Stock Company Nguyen Cong Hoan said that sports tourism is a thematic product line so compared to conventional tours, organizers need expertise in terms of travel. and certain knowledge about sports such as the regulations of the tournament, how to register … from which to advise guests to participate in activities suitable for health.
Many tourism experts also said that in the coming time, localities need to create a clear procedure in granting licenses to organize sports tournament for tourism and promotion of destinations. At the same time, socializing the organization of prizes in the direction of encouraging travel companies to create alliances to sell products related to sports tourism. And the sports industry should promote the promotion of events, landscapes and culture of Vietnam, thereby attracting visitors to Hanoi in particular and Vietnam in general.
Director of Hanoi Department of Tourism Dang Huong Giang affirmed that the Department will create maximum conditions as well as open up many opportunities for tourism businesses and sports event organizers to discuss, unify the way of declaration. waterfall. Since then, to travel to Vietnam in general, Hanoi in particular continues to be a attraction for domestic and foreign tourists.
Hanoi City has a convenient geographical location, good terrain and infrastructure, beautiful natural landscape, unique culture, rich cuisine, to organize sports tourism activities. The important thing, potential and advantages need to be “awakened” to develop sports tourism in accordance with what is available.
Dinh Thuan