Green tourism is a type of tourism that minimizes environmental impact, actively contributes to biodiversity protection, uses renewable energy and promotes natural and cultural heritages, develops environmentally friendly products. This is also a global trend by helping to limit negative impacts on the environment, enhance local cultural values and preserve natural heritages.
Diversifying green tourism products from available natural and cultural advantages
In the extreme south central coast, Binh Thuan converges diverse resources to strongly develop tourism with many environmentally friendly products, associated with resource conservation. This place also converges many cultural colors, relics associated with the history of formation and development of the locality, the life of ethnic communities such as Cham Po Sah Inu Tower, Van Thuy Tu, Dinh Thay Thim, the pottery village of the Cham people...
Mr. Nguyen Minh - Vice Chairman of Binh Thuan People's Committee - said that Binh Thuan is developing tourism product lines of "green" tourism, associating tourism activities with preserving and promoting resource values and environmental protection; Preserving and developing cultural tourism products associated with festivals, sightseeing and understanding of the life of the community and traditional craft villages; Promote the development of forest - waterfall - lake eco -tourism products, conquer nature, adventure tourism, agricultural ecotourism, community tourism combined at home, nursing tourism, health care; Combining tourism with seminars and events, contributing to affirming the destination really converges green values associated with the fresh environment, beautiful nature.
Tourism establishments respond to "greening"
To realize green tourism, many resorts in Binh Thuan have implemented maximum "greening" of tourism products, reinvested in equipment, and taken advantage of nature and landscapes in tourism operations. Tourism establishments have converted their fuel sources to green fuels such as wind energy and solar energy. At the same time, limit fuels and electricity producers that are harmful to the environment and operate according to the ESG model.
As noted at many resorts in Phan Thiet, the water bottles used at the resort are glass bottles to reuse many times, saying no to plastic bottles. The bags for travelers are also woven bags, not nylon bags. Or the garbage is classified at the resort. Mr. Nguyen Duc Tien, General Director of Mui Ne Bay Resort, Phan Thiet City - said that at the resort, prioritizing the use of environmentally friendly materials, ventilated design, using light and natural ventilation, keeping green space with many indigenous plants suitable for natural conditions. In addition, the resort also uses the roof of the building to install solar power system, solar hot water ... Besides, every small detail in products and utensils serving visitors is given priority to use with environmentally friendly materials such as bamboo, porcelain, ceramic, paper ...
Localities, Tourism Associations, and tourism businesses have taken practical actions to develop green tourism such as regularly cleaning up the environment, collecting and treating wastewater, waste, environmental sanitation associated with civilized urban lifestyles, decorating streets, planting trees, etc.
"greening" tourism requires people's cooperation
Mr. Bui The Nhan - Director of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Binh Thuan province said that in order to lay a solid foundation and gradually develop towards a green tourism economy, the Binh Thuan tourism industry is actively applying green concepts, green models, and green infrastructure to the planning of Mui Ne National Tourist Area.
In particular, the province focuses on propaganda and mobilization to raise public awareness of green tourism, sustainable tourism, and natural environment protection associated with the culture of each region for sustainable development. From there, local people benefit and each person is a tourism ambassador.
Green growth is a long and complicated roadmap, requiring the government and the community of people and businesses to be determined, persistent and constantly creative. There is also a need for appropriate policies to support and encourage the spirit of green transformation for tourism businesses.
Binh Thuan tourism with blue sea - white sand - yellow sun has long shaped a safe, friendly and trustworthy destination for tourists. Along with many meaningful milestones of the homeland in 2025, Binh Thuan tourism also celebrates 30 years of formation, development and aims for a period of green and sustainable development to continue to be an attractive, environmentally friendly destination.
