Abstract
Industry cluster is frequently mentioned in the literature of the regional economic development, but there are a few studies about identifying competitive clusters in the region. For this reason, the paper approaches cluster analysis for identifying competitive clusters in Central Vietnam. From location quotient and shift-share analysis, the result reveals that tourism cluster is a competitive cluster for the regional economic development. Then, the study develops the tourism cluster in central Vietnam that includes tourism cluster profile, tourism production network, and tourism value chain. Moreover, the study result provides a basic framework for industry cluster analysis that help policy makers and economic developers to understand economic activities, characteristics of competitive cluster and supranational characters in the regional economy, then deliver strategy and policies for tourism cluster development of Central Vietnam.
Highlights
The regional economic development has become a major issue that has been increasingly discussed in both the academic and the practice literature
In the investigation of factors impacted to tourism services, enterprises stated that human factor impacts to 70% of service quality, while visitor factor accounts for only 60%, the other factors such as raw material, suppliers and travel agents have influence on service quality
The tourism development becomes a key industry of the region and the country, it requires taking part in tourism enterprises and local governments in developing tourism cluster in the region
Summary
The regional economic development has become a major issue that has been increasingly discussed in both the academic and the practice literature. Many researchers have proposed ways to identify competitive clusters for regional economic development ranging from input/output analysis to cluster analysis (Carroll & Stanfield, 2001). The realities of global competition require an understanding on the complexities of interactions with multiple stakeholders in the global supply chain (Youngdahl & Loomba, 2000) From both theoretical and practical perspectives, this paper is to provide an analysis framework for policy makers and economic developers to understand economic activities and characteristics of competitive cluster in the region. Both quantitative and qualitative analyses are employed to develop tourism cluster profile, tourism production network, and tourism value chain in global chain perspective
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