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Essay / Analysis of Vietnam's tourism plan - 537
Tourism planning can be classified into 5 approaches: dynamism, economic, physical, community and sustainability. For the tourism development of Can Tho, economic, physical and community approaches are implemented. These three actions were undertaken in Can Tho town, such as the establishment of 165 hotels with around 4,000 rooms with 6,000 beds and many resorts near the Hau River. Can Tho town has already attracted nearly 1.48 million tourists last year; 250,000 foreign visitors earned VND953 billion. Can Tho City also aims to establish more than 20 ecotourism parks and expand the ecotourism sector to other cities located in the Mekong Delta area, collaborating with Kien Giang and An Giang provinces to form a tourism triangle and build service centers in mountainous, island and river areas (VietnamTourism, 2014). In addition, the Can Tho City Tourism Infrastructure Association invested 1 billion US dollars; a real estate company also financed an additional 2 billion from a holding group to develop tourism activity in Can Tho. Than Thanh Vu...