On weekends, Hua Tat becomes bustling with both domestic and international tourists. At A Chu Homestay, set amid a rustic natural backdrop with traditional wooden houses, visitors are excited to participate in traditional beeswax painting on indigo-dyed fabric - a craft the local Mong community has preserved for generations.

Giang Thi Nang, a local resident, said: "Nowadays, with the rise of industrialisation, the demand for beeswax-patterned fabric in daily life has declined. Thanks to community-based tourism, this craft has been revived and preserved, offering the Mong people in Hua Tat a new source of livelihood."

At local homestays, visitors are guided through each step of the process - melting the wax, drawing, dyeing, boiling the fabric, drying, and creating the finished product. With simple patterns, tourists can complete a 25x25 cm artwork in about an hour and take it home as a keepsake. A tour for 4-6 people to experience beeswax painting costs 400,000 VND (15.28 USD), which includes all materials and the final product.

Holding the artwork she created, Giulia, a tourist from Italy, shared joyfully that before coming here, she had only seen brocade fabrics in souvenir shops. But now, after melting the wax, using the handmade tools, and seeing the patterns emerge on the fabric myself, she can truly appreciate the intricacy and craftsmanship involved. It reflects the cultural love of the people here.

Alongside beeswax painting, traditional Mong papermaking also offers a unique and popular experience for visitors to Hua Tat. Trang A Cua was the first in the hamlet to turn papermaking into a tourism product. He said that the Mong papermaking technique dates back at least 300 years and has been passed down through generations. With the rise of tourism, he worked with a group of volunteers from Singapore to document the full papermaking process and compile bilingual materials in Vietnamese and English to help tourists better understand this traditional craft.

Visitors can join a papermaking workshop for groups of 4–6 people at 300,000 VND per session. The process includes steps such as pounding bamboo, separating fibers, spreading pulp, drying, and shaping. For those wanting to experience raw material collection and bamboo boiling, the cost increases to around 500,000 VND per session.

To enhance the tourist experience, locals in Hua Tat have creatively combined traditional handmade paper with beeswax designs for decorative purposes, such as lanterns, wall art, handmade notebooks, postcards, sketches, or calligraphy. Many tourists also enjoy making floral paper paintings or designing their own paper lanterns.

Other traditional crafts such as blacksmithing, flax spinning, weaving, and embroidery of traditional skirts by the Hmong are also being turned into tourism experiences to enrich visitors’ stay in Hua Tat.

Trang A Chu, owner of A Chu Homestay, said that after the harvest season (July–August), people have more free time. Tourism helps them earn additional income. Even households without homestays can earn money by guiding activities, supporting tourists, or making handmade products for sale. Thanks to tourism, many traditional crafts have been revived and their value rediscovered.