VIETNAM – Hanoi – Educational Experience in Traditional Handicraft Village

Description

This activity gives guests a chance to discover a small handicraft business, which employs disabled artisans to help them maintain employment and whose main products are textiles. The products are both durable and decorative, boasting various beautiful and unique designs, which represent Vietnamese culture and tradition. The local artisans love to share their stories, their daily work, and even guide visitors, step by step, on how to make their own simple fabric painting as a souvenir. The community area around the workshop is also a great area to explore, including the temple, pagoda, traditional handicraft houses/families, and local business market.

Can be combined with

Thematic Leisure

• Hanoi – Go on a treasure hunt in the maze of the 36 streets

Selling points

• A real, authentic experience, interacting with local people
• An opportunity to make one’s own beautiful fabric painting
• Support the disabled Vietnamese community
• Discover Hanoi’s local life in a non-touristy area

Level Of The Excursion

The Impact Of This Excursion

Social/cultural Impact

Economic Impact

Additional Information

Support for local communities: The activity is contributing directly for a social enterprise which trains and employs disabled people by offering them trainings and a normal way of life.

Cultural engagement: The tour provides participants an opportunity to engage in direct contact with the villagers as well as the special workers and learn about their life efforts, joys and life values.

Responsible tourism: The activity promotes responsible tourism practices by encouraging participants to respect and preserve the natural and cultural environment they visit and even contribute positively to the locals’ preservation and conservation efforts.

The activity consists of making special handmade crafts from silk residue materials disposed by local silk manufacturers in the village.

This experience represents a harmonious blend of cultural engagement, responsible tourism, and sustainable practices. By supporting a social enterprise, this tour not only supports a social enterprise in creating job opportunities but also preserves invaluable traditions and fosters social inclusion for the “different-abled” people.

Time And Transportation

Duration

3 hours

Min pax

1

Max pax

30

How to sell it

• Interact with local people
• For guests who have time in Hanoi or families looking for a cultural interaction and souvenirs for kids
• A sustainable activity that supports a local community
• A sustainable, “do it yourself” activity
• Shows the real life of Vietnam; absolutely not touristy
• Workers are mainly deaf people: no spoken interaction, but with hands, eyes, and smiles

Why this activity

• An Easia Signature product
• Supporting the business of local community
• Supporting a good quality handicraft product of Vietnamese people
• Help disabled Vietnamese people integrate into the community
• Propose as an activity to answer demand for sustainability and interaction with locals
• Off the beaten path in Hanoi
• A meeting with the representative of the handicraft village
• Not for mass tourism and classic tours
• For niche sustainable / responsible tourism
• To bring back home a souvenir

Good to combine with

• A second day in Hanoi, after the classic visits
• For families with kids of more than 4 years who want an educational activity (in terms of respect and cultural difference) after a classic visit
• A free afternoon in Hanoi and a show on evening
• Before a flight or travel in the afternoon
• With other sustainable or interactive activities with locals during a tour in Vietnam

Do not combine with

• Full-day visit
• Cooking class
• For families: Meeting with a local on the same day

Market suggestion

Competitor comparison

•  Easia Signature

Pros

• Easy to reach the workshop
• Toilet is available
• The community area is great for walking
• Supplier is willing to foster the interaction with foreigners and develop their business

Cons

• Just one man can speak English; tour guide is necessary to translate from Vietnamese to English
• Not suitable for last-minute requests
• In the winter, it can be cold
• The Van Phuc market is touristy

Information

• Guests can choose to make one of the designs as their own product during the workshop
• After the workshop, guests can walk around the community to see the local people’s life
• Vun Art products can be used as Easia Travel Gifts
• For FIT: can have a coffee break before leaving
• You can offer 2 different “do it yourself” items either canvas wallet making or fabric painting

Alerts

During weekdays, we should expect to have a transportation time of about 1 hour from Hoan Kiem due to rush hour.
The silk factory is touristic.

Important information

Sensitive Activity – Notes for the Sales
This activity is made in cooperation with a social enterprise
Workers helping the travelers are mainly deaf people: no spoken interaction, but with hands, eyes, and smiles
It helps disabled Vietnamese people integrate into the community

Quotation guideline

ERP – Hanoi – Activity – Educational experience in traditional handicraft village

Option 1: Canvas wallet making

Option 2: Fabric painting A5

Inclusion

• Material for making items
• Local guide

Exclusion

• Transportation
• Easia Tour guide

Special Guide notes

Study the supplier and the program before the tour starts

Sensitive Activity – Notes for the guide:
Guide should explain to the travelers how important getting job is for disabled people in Vietnam
It’s important to mention that it’s a really company and not an NGO

Contact

VUN ART COOPERATIVE

Tầng 2, Trung tâm Kinh doanh lụa Vạn Phúc, Q. Hà Đông, Hà Nội
Contact person: Ms Lê Hà
Contact number: 0936212706
Email: htx.vunart@gmail.com

English

Educational experience in traditional handicraft village

You will be warmly welcomed by Vun Art’s staff upon arriving at an impressive green temple, which is the oldest temple in the community. After a few minutes of greetings, listen to the story of the traditional handicraft community, learn all about their missions, as well as the products they make. Then, you can try to create a fabric painting with the help of a local artisan, who might not be able to speak, but can communicate very well with sign- and body language. After finishing your creation, you can take a walk around the community to discover the local life of the people, from the workshop where people make silk, to the traditional silk dying house, a communal house, and some other beautifully-authentic sights to soak in.

Duration: 3 hours

French

Visite éducative dans un village d’artisanat traditionnel

L’équipe de Vun Art vous accueillera chaleureusement à votre arrivée dans le plus vieux temple de la communauté, un temple vert impressionnant. Après les présentations vous écouterez l’histoire de la communauté d’artisanat traditionnel et apprendrez tout de ses missions ainsi que des produits qu’on y réalise. Vous pourrez ensuite vous essayer à la peinture sur tissu sous la supervision d’un artisan local. Ce dernier ne sera peut-être pas capable de s’exprimer par la parole mais vous pourrez le comprendre grâce au langage des signes et au langage corporel. Une fois votre création achevée, vous pourrez vous balader dans la communauté et découvrir la vie de ses habitants, vous pourrez voir l’atelier de fabrication de la soie, la maison où l’on teint ce tissu de façon traditionnelle, une maison communautaire ainsi que d’autres lieux à la beauté authentique.

Durée: 3 heures

Spanish

Experiencia educativa en pueblo artesanal tradicional

Recibirá una calurosa bienvenida de parte del personal de Vun Art cuando llegue a este impresionante templo verde, el más antiguo de la comunidad. Después de dedicar algunos minutos a presentarse, escuche la historia de esta comunidad artesanal tradicional, conozca su misión y los productos que fabrican. Después, puede probar a pintar en tela con la ayuda de un artesano local, quien quizá no pueda hablar, pero puede comunicarse de forma fluida con lenguaje de signos y lenguaje corporal. Después de acabar su creación, puede dar un paseo por la comunidad para descubrir la vida local de estas personas, desde el taller en el que fabrican seda a la casa tradicional de tinte de seda, una casa comunitaria y demás sitios de interés que irradian autenticidad y belleza.

Duración: 3 horas.

Italian

Esperienza educativa nel villaggio di artigianato tradizionale

Sarete accolti calorosamente dallo staff di Vun Art una volta arrivati in un imponente tempio verde, che è il tempio più antico della comunità. Dopo alcuni minuti per i saluti, ascoltate la storia della tradizionale comunità di artigiani, imparate tutto sulle loro missioni e sui prodotti che realizzano. A continuazione. potete provare a creare un dipinto su tessuto con l’aiuto di un artigiano locale, che potrebbe non essere in grado di parlare, ma può comunicare molto bene con il linguaggio dei segni e del corpo. Dopo aver terminato la vostra creazione, potete fare una passeggiata intorno alla comunità per scoprire la vita locale della gente, dal laboratorio in cui la gente fa la seta fino alla tradizionale casa di tintura di questa fibra, oltre a una casa comune e altri luoghi meravigliosamente autentici dove potrete immergervi.

Durata: 3 ore

German

Ein lehrreiches Erlebnis in einem traditionellen Handwerksdorf

Bei Ihrer Ankunft an einem beeindruckenden grünen Tempel, dem ältesten dieser Gemeinde, werden Sie von den Vun-Art’s-Mitarbeitern herzlich willkommen geheißen. Nach ein paar Minuten der Begrüßung können Sie der Geschichte dieser traditionellen Handwerksgemeinde lauschen und alles über ihre Mission sowie auch über die Produkte, die hergestellt werden, lernen. Dann können Sie sich mithilfe eines einheimischen Kunsthandwerkers an Stoffmalerei versuchen; der Kunsthandwerker kann vielleicht nicht sprechen, aber dank Zeichen- und Körpersprache kann er sehr gut kommunizieren. Möglicherweise ist dieser nicht in der Lage zu sprechen, doch kann er über Zeichen- und Körpersprache sehr gut kommunizieren. Nachdem Sie fertig sind, machen Sie einen Spaziergang durch das Dorf, um das lokale Leben der Menschen dort kennenzulernen – von der Werkstatt, in der Leute Seide herstellen, bis hin zur traditionellen Seidenfärberei, einem Gemeinschaftshaus, und einigen anderen schönen, authentischen Sehenswürdigkeiten.

Dauer: 3 Stunden

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