Abstract
Community-based tourism (CBT) is considered as one of the typical types of tourism towards sustainable development with three important goals such as bringing back economic benefits, protecting natural environment and preserving indigenous cultural values. Therefore, this paper analyzes the factors that affect community ecotourism development associated with environmental protection in emerging economies, including Vietnam, by the method of key and community tourism potential value assessment with 721 sample surveys. In this paper, we have applied to assess the key factors of tourism in Vietnam and other key points to have more comprehensive solutions to promote the development of community-based tourism with environmental protection. The article has used guest-based approach and method of assessing the key success factors. The results of researching factors to develop community tourist (impacting tourist community needs of tourists) by running Logit function have shown the great influence of factors such as: environmental protection (influence factor +3.585780, with a statistical significance of 99%), security and safety (+3.024816—statistical significance 99%) followed by infrastructure conditions & facilities for the community based tourism, the level of information etc… for your community based tourism needs. From the research results, we propose the following policy groups: 1) Developing guidelines for CBT, the first step as a basis for the development of community based tourism laws later; 2) Policies related to the implementation of planning, development of key community tourist areas and destinations; 3) Policies related to the development of community-based tourism associated with the protection of natural and cultural environments; 4) Policies related to tourism management; coordinating monitoring of community tourism resource points; policies related to the local community in community tourism development; 5) Policies related to human resource development; promotion work; developing community based tourism products.
Highlights
Nowadays, community-based tourism is being regarded as a type of tourism that creates many benefits for both tourists and tourist destinations
We have applied to assess the key factors of tourism in Vietnam and other key points to have more comprehensive solutions to promote the development of community-based tourism with environmental protection
We propose the following policy groups: 1) Developing guidelines for Community-based Tourism (CBT), the first step as a basis for the development of community based tourism laws later; 2) Policies related to the implementation of planning, development of key community tourist areas and destinations; 3) Policies related to the development of community-based tourism
Summary
Community-based tourism is being regarded as a type of tourism that creates many benefits for both tourists and tourist destinations. Especially in the northern mountainous provinces of Vietnam, developing methods of community-based tourism has achieved initial success. Community-based tourism only achieves the goal of sustainable development when tourist-maker understands exactly and fully the characteristics of CBT for better management. The competitive advantage of CBT destinations is created by local resources, in which, human resource plays a decisive role as one of the most important indicators reflecting the level of tourism development at the destination. At the so-called CBT sites in Vietnam, people do not fully and exactly understand this type of tourism. It can be said that HR training for CBT development is both urgent and strategic, and a very important issue that must be placed on the top position for localities with a comparative advantage in developing community-based tourism in Vietnam
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