The Impacts of globalization on tourism industry in Vietnam
The
Impacts
of globalization
on tourism
industry
in Vietnam
Class: Academic writing Group: A3 Instructor: Mr. Nguyen Pham Duy Anh Le Trong Huu (ID: 16608) The Vietnamese-German University The impacts
of globalization
on tourism
industry
in Vietnam
Introduction According to
World
Bank, Vietnam
is a developing country whose GDP growth has risen about more than 5% since 1990, with not small contribution of tourism
industry
register at 11.5 billion USD in 2014 and annual growth approximately 6% (Tổng cục Du Lịch, 2014). Go along with
the impacts
of globalization
, it will be a powerful push for tourism
industry
in particular
, for Vietnam
in general. This
essay will first propose definition of globalization
and then
discuss in-depth how globalization
has affected tourism
. Definition The terms “Globalization
” can be known as the reinforcement integration in terms of economies, politic, culture and society, and civilizations. Moreover
, international relations have been simplified and gone beyond. Globalization
is a process which impacts
majority aspects of human life: from political corporation, capital flows to personal opinions. It is also
related to environmental issue, criminal behavior, heath, and, terrorism. Travel and tourism
are one of the causes and results of globalization
processes. (Hjalager, 2007) The tourism
industry
, also
known as the travel industry
, is traveling activities to other destination, either domestically or internationally, for social, leisure, or business purposes. It closely related to the hospitality industry
, the hotel industry
and the logistic industry
, and its target is achieved the customers satisfied by responding or serving demands that they need during their holiday. A Brief Overview of Vietnam
Vietnam
has great potential to make tourism
become a strong industry
because Vietnam
located in the central of Southeast Asia, with a coastline length of more than 3,260 km along the water with forest trees green and scenic grandeur. Vietnam
Nam boasts over 125 beaches and in the list of 12 countries leading to the bay the most beautiful in the world
(Ministry of Foreign Affairs Vietnam
, 2018) and more than 3,000 scenic and historic sites listed as heritage countries. Up to 2019, Vietnam
has eight ‘World
Heritage’ (UNESCO, 2020) and thirteen ‘Intangible Cultural Heritages’ (UNESCO, 2020) that was recognized by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). How globalization
effect on tourism
industry
? 1.Positive effect Following the impacts
of globalization
, the series of agreement and organization had been signed and joint by Vietnam
government such
as ASEAN( Association of Southeast Asian Nation), WTO(World
Trade Organization), EVFTA (European Union Vietnam
Free Trade Agreement), CPTPP( the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership) has been contributed to impulse economic and society in general, tourism
in particular
. Thereby, it facilitates to enhance global mobility. This
means that “Globalization
” has made easier to travel around the world
. There are several cheaper flights which was offered, multi-companies are opening offices everywhere. Thanks to e-banking and international bank, the transactions and payments have been safely accomplished by single click of mouse. In 2017, Vietnam
have 79 luxury hotels had just opened, among this
register 10 five-star luxury hotel which added 101,400 rooms and increased 10% year by year (Atkinson, 2017). Quang Nam is one of provinces outstanding with attract FDI ( Foreign Direct Investment) , following statistic, up to 2018, there was 45 projects in tourists and services with capital investment about 4,5 billion USD and accounting for 81% FDI investment (Anh, 2018). In 2018, Vietnam
welcomed 15,497,791 international visitors, an increase of 19.9% compared to 2017 and income in tourism
have followed the growth of two-digit since 2009, peaked at 80,6% in 2013 and obtained 289.84 billion VND (Vietnam
National Administration of Tourism
, 2018).Submitted by Huu Le Trong on
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