Ecological tourism in Tram Chim national park: potential, opportunity and challenge

Abstract

ABSTRACT Although new ecotourism indeed developed from the last years of the twentieth century, it has been receiving considerable attention from the whole society, because of its superiority compared to other types of tourism in terms of responsibility for people, nature, and environment. Ecotourism is becoming popular as visitors begin to pay more attention to minimizing their impact on the beautiful lands they come across. Vietnam has become an ideal place to provide many eco-tourism experiences for tourists interested in the environment. Tram Chim is one of the National Parks in Vietnam that has excellent potential to develop this type of ecotourism as it is considered a “small part“ of the ancient wetland ecosystem. Tram Chim National Park - Ramsar area is of international importance, ranking 2,000th in the world and 4th in Vietnam. Tram Chim National Park attracts many tourists because of its beautiful natural landscape and rare red-crowned crane and many other plants and animals in the Red Book. This article outlines the potentials, current status, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and challenges in ecological tourism development. On that basis, propose some orientations and solutions to promote ecotourism development in Tram Chim National Park in the next time.