Con Son is a floating island in Binh Thuy district, Can Tho city. Con Son is known to tourists for its fruit-laden orchards; the people of Con Son are honest, hospitable, hardworking and creative. However, Con Son tourism is famous for promoting collective strength and solidarity of the farmers. It is a way of exchanging work when a family has many guests. It is a research to find new directions to enhance the experience of tourists. It is a sharing of guests and services to better serve tourists…

Coming to Bay Bon fish raft, visitors can visit the model of raising fish on the river with rare fish species and you can buy products made from Bronze featherback. Coming to Thanh Tam garden house, visitors have an unforgettable experience through the activity of catching fish in ditches. Coming to Song Khanh garden house, visitors can enjoy rustic dishes such as copper pot rice, salty fish, and fried pancakes. Chin Nho Garden specializes in serving grilled chicken with salt and chili and dishes made from frogs. Tin Hoa Garden is famous for its flying snakehead fish performance that attracts tourists... Just like that, "each house has a product", no house is afraid of overlapping with another house, no house competes with another house.

Coming to Con Son, visitors will experience peaceful scenery, see fruit-laden orchards, and experience the life of the islanders. Visitors will become real farmers when they join the locals in harvesting, learning about gardening techniques, and participating in fishing activities. They will be able to go into the kitchen and experience making rustic dishes and traditional cakes… Coming to Con Son, tourists can also enjoy many tropical products such as grapefruit, rambutan, strawberry, star apple, etc. Tourists can be completely assured with the specialties and ingredients used for food and drink of the locals. Farmers mainly use clean and organic products to serve tourists…

Flying snakehead fish, an interesting experience that contributes to attracting visitors to Con Son. Photo: Collection

A plus point for Con Son tourism is the issue of human resources. Not only exchanging labor, not only uniting and sharing, but those working in tourism in Con Son also work with all their heart, enthusiasm and passion. The common goal is to develop Con Son tourism, introducing the beauty of Con Son to domestic and foreign tourists. From being farmers who also serve, do tourism, and work as part-timers, gradually the tourism workers in Con Son have become specialized. The households doing tourism in Con Son have built a consulting team, serving both as local tour guides and to guide and connect visitors with the garden owners. The members of the group are mainly local children, some have studied through short-term training courses, some have graduated from Can Tho University from the majors of Tourism, Literature, Vietnamese Studies, Foreign Languages. Their fathers and uncles worked in tourism as part-timers, they are the next generation who have been trained, have knowledge, have expertise, further showing a positive, sustainable change in Con Son tourism.

In addition, Con Son tourism is also filtering visitors. People in Con Son are aware that too many visitors will not provide good service. Therefore, recently, Con Son tourism has limited the growth of visitors, only welcoming and serving about 350 visitors per day. This not only reduces the overload situation, leading to poor service, but also contributes to sustainable resource protection. These unique features have created a brand for Con Son community tourism.

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