VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY-HANOI INSTITUTE OF VIETNAMESE STUDIES AND DEVELOPMENT SCIENCES ---------- NGUYEN THI HANH TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN SONLA PROVINCE MASTER THESIS ON VIETNAMESE STUDIES Major: VIETNAMESE STUDIES Code: 60 31 60 Supervisor: Associate Professor Tran Duc Thanh HANOI,12/2012 TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.com ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am heartily thankful to my supervisor, professor Tran Duc Thanh PhD, whose encouragement, guidance and support from the initial to the final level enabled me to develop an understanding of the subject. I would like to express my gratutude to the staff of the Institute of Vietnamese Studis and Development Science, especially the staff of Training Office, for the favorable conditions they have created, to the lectures involving in my class named K5 for their interesting and beneficial courses, for their efficacious help during my study. I also wish to thank the leaders of the Department of Culture, Sport and Tourism of Sonla Province, the leaders of my College, for their helping and encouraging me to achieve my work Although I have tried my best, I realize there will be limitations to our work due to my situation and capacity as well. Therefore, I am eager to receive your comments to improve the work Son La, December 2012 AUTHOR NGUYEN THI HANH TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.com TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION.
Scope of research. History of research problem. The structure of the thesis. 6 Chapter 1: BACKGROUND ON THE CONDITIONS FOR TOURISM DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER 1 BACKGROUND ON THE CONDITIONS FOR TOURISM DEVELOPMENT.
Some basic concepts. Tourism accommodation establishments. The conditions for tourism development. Natural conditions and natural resources.
Plant and animal. Socio-economic conditions and human tourism resources. 11 TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail. The historical – cultural monuments .3 The tourism objects associated with ethnography.
Occupation and the traditional craft villages. The objects of culture, sports and other cognitive activities. Infrastructure for tourism. Water drainage and supply system.
Current situation of Vietnam tourism. 22 CHAPTER 2: REAL STATUS OF TOURISM ACTIVITY IN SONLA 23 2. Son La tourism resources. Natural tourism resources.
Flora and fauna. Human tourism resources. The other ontological resources. Other intangible tourism resources.
39 TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail. Material and technical facilities of tourism. The tourism products. Home-stay Tourism.
Results from the tourism activities .1 The room occupancy Rate. 61 CHAPTER 3: SOME SOLUTIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN SONLA PROVINCE. The basis to build solutions. Development orientations of Vietnam tourism sector.
Orientation for socio-economic development of Son La province. Some measures to develop tourism in the provinces effectively and stably. Solution on policies. Solutions to tourism space development.
65 TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail. Solutions to develop tourism products. Solutions to training, human resource development and improving the community capacity. Solution to protect the environment and ensure sustainable tourism development.
Solutions to tourism promotion and development. 74 TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail. Rationale statment Sonla is third lagest pronvince in Vietnam (ranking after Nghean and Daklak provinces) Over 60% of the province area is covered forest. Land for agriculture is very limited, in average, it is about 0.
The majority of residents (993 thousand /1084 thousands) live in the rural areas, so the people here still faced many difficulties. The province's GDP was only about VND 4600 billion, GDP per capita equvalent to 1/6 everage GDP per capita of the country (about USD212 / USD 1,200 of the country - Data 2009). To serve the national hydro power plant, thousands residents living in the planed area have been moved to new place. Although the authorities actively support, but the lives of many people disturbed.
The shifting lines were difficult because unfamiliar with the new job, due to weather, farming conditions, etc. Son La has a favorable geographical position, fresh air, abundant natural resources and tourist attractions. So this is the ideal destination for many tourists. Son La has many attractions, including the typical tourist spots like Moc Chau Plateau, the plateau Na, cave bats, hang thick, hydro Son La, Son La ancient prison.
The sights are great advantages to Son La to promote investment in developing tourism activities. Meanwhile, in Son La convergence of many cultures, unique traditions of 12 ethnic groups, which are typical habits of ethnic Thai and H‟mong peoples. With that potential, Son La will be very favorable for the development of cultural tourism, tourism homestay. With convenient locations and potential tourism resources in abundance, Son La tourism in recent years has seen a remarkable development, contribute to the development of local economy and to the 1 TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.com cause of tourism development in the country.
However, the tourism potential of the Son La has not effectively exploited, the tourism product is poor, investment in tourism in the area is limited, the image of the Son La tourism have not created a clarity in the relationship with Hanoi, the tourist center and with the other neighbouring provincesand travel nationwide as well. Number of tourists coming to Vietnam in general and Son La in particular is increasing. Thus promoting tourism development in Son La is consistent with the trend of the times, in accordance with the development strategy of Vietnam's tourism, especially strategic socio-economic development of the province, in which tourism and services was identified as an important economic sector. Tourism development has special meaning for a local mountainous areas of Son La - where the poverty rate remains high.
The shifting economic structure from agriculture to service sector will enable local people to increase their incomes and to reduce their poverty. So study "Tourism development in Son La province" has a practical significance meets objectives of Vietnamese studies. Research objectives - Contributing to the process of economic transfomation in order to improve the living standards of local communities. - Determining the direction and solutions forsustainable exploitation of the Sonla tourism resources, contributing for poverty alleviation 3.
Research tasks To achieve the research objectives set out, the thesis focuses on the following tasks: 2 TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.com - Collecting secondary data and overviewing theoretical concepts on sustanable tourism development and overviewing the present situation of tourism in Son La provincebyfield observations, interviews and questionare - Analysising and evaluating the situations and concret conditions for tourism development in SonLa. - Proposing the orientations and solutions for Son La tourism development. Study objects The conditions for tourism development, tourism resources and tourism activities in Son La. Scope of research - Content: Topics focused on Son La tourism activities.
- Spatial scale: The whole territory of Son La province, of the tourism resources, the tourist spots, the toursin Sonlain relationship with the neighboring provinces and the North West tourism sub-regiona. - Time: Subject focuses on investigation, data collection, analysis and research mainly in the period 2006 - 2011, proposing the solutions and directions tourism development in the phase of from 2015 to 2020. History of research problem 6. Abroad The scientific projects research on aspects of tourism such as tourism resources, tourism planning and territorial organization had just appeared in the late nineteenth century and flourished along with the trend of planning, socio-economic development planning and tourism development from the thirty years of the twentieth century.
From 1980 onwards, China and other developing countries have considered tourism as a key economic sector, so many theoretical and practical research works relating to tourism planning and tourism resources 3 TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.com are carried out by the scientists such as: "Development and management of local tourism," by Ngo Tat Ho, 2000; "System of planning criteria" by Ngo Vi Dan, 1979. In Vietnam Currently, there are tourism geographical research works in Vietnam on issues from theoretical and practical bases of tourism development from provincial, regional scale to national one. A number of scientific themes is involved such as: Tran Duc Thanh, Tourism Geography, Vietnam National University Publisher, Hanoi, 1995; Nguyen Minh Tue, Vu Tuan Canh, Le Thong, Pham Xuan Hau, Nguyen Kim Hong, Tourism Geography , Ho Chi Minh City Publisher; People's Committee of Son La Province, Department of Son La Trade and Tourism, general report on master planning for tourism development in Son La Province in the period of 2007 - 2015 and vision to 2020, Son La 2007; Le Trong Binh, tourism current State and territorial organization orientation in Vietnam. Scientific Yearbook: Vietnam socio- economic territorial organization – Art to ensuring the successful development in the context of international integration”.
Ministry of Planning and Investment, Development Strategy Institute, Hanoi 02-2007. Vu Tuan Canh (Editor), Vietnam tourism environment and the problems given for the sake of sustainable environmental development. Synthesis Report; Vu Tuan Canh: Vietnam Tourism at the threshold of twenty-first century, Journal of Tourism and Development No. 01-1995, Hanoi; Handbook on sustainable tourism development, Vietnam Tourism Bureau, the travel newsletter No.
1, 11-2005; In addition, there are many other valuable research works like MA thesis. Dang Duy Loi, 1995, "Assessing and exploiting the natural conditions in Ba Vi District, Ha Tay province for tourism purpose. Tran Duc 4 TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.com Thanh, 1995, "Scientific Basis for the construction of maps for the purpose of provincial tourism in Vietnam - Ninh Binh province, for instance", "Tourism Geography" chaired by Nguyen Minh Tue, 1994; General Departmental theme "potentiality of tourism resources in Vietnam" implemented by Nguyen Minh Tue, 1996. In recent years, along with the development of the tourism industry throughout the country, there have been articles and research works on Son La tourism.
Typically, Do Thi Mui author has a PhD topic "territorial organization of Son La tourism” that refers quite sufficient for the tourism territory. This topic has showed the trend of tourism development in the future and direction of sustainable tourism development through the rationally territorial organization. The author has analyzed and clarified the main resources for the tourism territorial organization in Son La. In that basis, the theme "Tourism development in Son La" is the first synthetic and systematic research work relevant to potentiality, current situation and solutions for tourism development in Son La province.
These findings of the research will contribute to the overall and detailed picture on tourism activities in the province of Son La, as well as comparative advantages for tourism development with the provinces in the sub-region of the Northwest tourism in particular and the northern tourism regions in general. It; thereby, shall propose appropriate measures to enhance the effective exploitation of regionally rich and diversified tourism potentiality. Research Methods In order to complete this theme, the author has used the methodologies: - Investigation, field survey: Making 3 field surveys (Phase 1: from 20/02/2011 to 25/02/2011; Phase 2 from 07/5/2011 to 15/05/2011; Phase 3 from 22/07/2011 to 28/ 07/2011) to investigate, collect, update the primary 5 TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.com data on the Son La tourism resources as well as on the status of tourist activities in that area. - Sociological Investigation: Focusing sociological investigation through exchange, and interview with some managers at some places, resorts and residential areas included the tourism activities and objects of different tourists; at the same time, studying the materials in the tourism destinations (tourism registers, opinion record books and suggestions of tourists .) to gather the necessary information for the theme.
- Analysis and evaluation: The primary data about the conditions and tourism development state in Son La to propose the solutions for development. The structure of the thesis A part from the introduction, conclusion, references and appendices, the content of the thesis consists of 3 chapters: Chapter 1: BACKGROUND ON THE CONDITIONS FOR TOURISM DEVELOPMENT Chapter 2: REAL STATUS OF TOURISM ACTIVITY IN SONLA Chapter 3: SOME SOLUTIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN SONLA PROVINCE 6 TIEU LUAN MOI download : skknchat@gmail.com CHAPTER 1 BACKGROUND ON THE CONDITIONS FOR TOURISM DEVELOPMENT 1.