Ninh Binh Tourism Food Festival with the theme “Culinary quintessence of the ancient capital” will take place from October 18-29, 2024 with many attractive activities. At the same time, Trang An – Cuc Phuong Hot Air Balloon Festival will also be held from October 26-29, 2024 with the theme “The beauty of the ancient capital”.
With its unique characteristics and potential in terms of nature – culture – history, Ninh Binh province has determined its socio-economic development strategy as “taking the preservation and promotion of the value of cultural – historical heritage, the fine traditions of the people, the land of the ancient capital, and the outstanding value of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage Trang An as a resource and driving force for development” and set the goal of becoming a centrally-governed city by 2035 with the characteristics of “Millennium Heritage City, Creative City” with Trang An Heritage as the center.
On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Trang An Scenic Landscape Complex being recognized by UNESCO as a World Cultural and Natural Heritage (2014 – 2024), Ninh Binh province organized the Ninh Binh Tourism Food Festival and the Trang An – Cuc Phuong Hot Air Balloon Festival.
The Ninh Binh Tourism Food Festival 2024 is organized to introduce, perform, and exchange culture and cuisine between districts, cities, and culinary businesses in Ninh Binh province. This is an extremely important event contributing to preserving, honoring, and promoting the value of traditional culinary culture, researching and restoring dishes in the style of the ancient Hoa Lu Royal Court.
At the same time, through the Festival, the value and quality of dishes of the ancient capital of Hoa Lu will be enhanced to serve tourists, creating new, unique, and attractive tourism products, attracting a large number of people and domestic and international tourists.
The Ninh Binh Tourism Food Festival will take place from October 18-29, 2024, with the opening ceremony at 7:00 p.m. on October 18, 2024 at Ninh Binh Dinosaur Park, Square 3, Ninh Binh City.
The event attracted the participation of 8 districts and cities in the province and 100 booths of domestic and foreign enterprises participating in the competition and display.
The main activities taking place in the Festival include the Regional Cuisine Exhibition Space; Culinary Tourism Competition (October 24) with the following competitions: Traditional feasts (for the King), food preparation; discussion on developing Ninh Binh culinary tourism culture (October 22).
The series of activities responding to the event include competitions: Artistic flower arrangement, English Champion, cake making, running, children’s balancing, clay figurine making, chess, cooking sweet soup, mixing, searching for tourism ambassadors – shining with Ninh Binh culinary tourism… In particular, at the Opening Ceremony, there will be a Culinary Promotion activity by the Vietnam Chefs Association, the Vietnam Culinary Culture Association, the Vietnam Royal Chefs Association cooking a giant pot of crab soup with 999 servings to thank visitors. The event is open to the public and visitors for free.
The Ninh Binh Tourism Food Festival is one of the activities to promote the image of the tourism destination brand, culinary culture, people, potentials and advantages of tourism development of Ninh Binh province.
With the goal of becoming a tourism center of the country and the region, making tourism a key economic sector, the implementation of new tourism products with a view of the majestic landscape and nature of Trang An Heritage from above, the combination of traditional cultural and artistic activities with the modern colorful festival of hot air balloons will bring many experiences to visitors
The Trang An – Cuc Phuong Hot Air Balloon Festival will take place from October 26 to 29, 2024. The festival will have 35 hot air balloons and paragliders (13 hot air balloons and 22 paragliders) controlled by foreign pilots and the Hanoi Paragliding Club.
The opening ceremony will take place at 7:30 am on October 26 at Trang An Cultural Park. The time for people and tourists to experience flying and hanging on hot air balloons will be from 7:00 am to 9:00 am and from 4:30 pm to 9:00 pm.
For sightseeing activities, taking photos and checking in with hot air balloon performances, it will be held from 7:30 am to 9:30 am and from 3:30 pm every day.
Within the framework of the Festival, the Organizing Committee will arrange 120 booths displaying specialties from regions across the country, booths displaying gifts for tourists, and tourism booths of the provinces.
The festivals are attractive activities to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Trang An Scenic Landscape Complex being recognized by UNESCO as a World Cultural and Natural Heritage (2014 – 2024).
With a consistent strategy of developing green and sustainable tourism; Community-based tourism, respecting natural values, cultural history to the maximum, along with a systematic approach to developing unique tourism products with creative combinations of Culture – Art – natural scenery, Ninh Binh is increasingly affirming its position, becoming an unmissable destination for domestic and foreign tourists.
Source – Diep Anh
Government electronic newspaper – baochinhphu.vn
Posted on October 16, 2024
