Master plan for Vietnam tourism development to 2020, vision to 2030

Head project: Vietnam National Administration of Tourism

Category: Strategy

Year of Publish: 2013

Perspective

The Master plan for tourism development ensures the principles of sector planning, prescribed in Tourism Law:

– In accordance with the orientation of economic and social development, and the Strategy for Vietnam tourism development to 2020, vision to 2030.

– Ensuring national sovereignty, defense, security, social order and social safety.

– Developing and protecting tourism resources and environment, preserving and promoting the nation’s cultural identity.

– Ensuring the balance between tourism demand and supply; promoting national advantages and the strengths of each region or province; using the resources rationally and efficiently.

– Compliance with planning methods

Objective:

Specifying the views and objectives of the Strategy for Vietnam’s tourism development to 2020, vision to 2030, in order to:

– Ensuring the management of tourism development is implemented effectively and synchronously across the country.

– Creating the basic for the formulation of regional and local tourism development planning, planning of major tourism areas and investment projects for tourism development.

Tasks

– Identifying the roles and the advantages of tourism in the country’s economic – social development.

– Analyzing and evaluating the current status of tourism resources and development, based on evaluation criteria, achieved results, identifying the drawbacks and causes in tourism planning from 1995 to 2010.

– Identifying the views and objectives for Vietnam’s tourism development to 2020; forecasting and demonstrating the plans for tourism development to 2020, vision to 2030.

– Tourism spatial planning, investing in infrastructure and facilities for tourism.

– Identifying the list of prioritized investment area and projects, land use demand, capital and human resources in tourism; market and tourism products orientation; tourism business activities.

– Assessing environmental impacts and identifying solutions to protect tourism resources and the environment.

– Proposing mechanism and policies; solutions, management model.

Main content

The main directions are about developing tourism markets; developing both domestic and international tourism, inbound and outbound tourism; focusing on tourists whose purpose of trip is travel and leisure with long stay and high expenditure; developing tourism products; organizing tourism zones; boosting investment for tourism development; tourism business management.

Regarding solutions, the plan focuses on mechanisms, policies; mobilization of tourism investment; promotion and advertisement; organization and management of the plan; application of science and technology; international cooperation; resources and tourism environment protection and solutions to cope with impact of climate change.

Planning method

– Field trips in the country and abroad.

– Methods of synthesis and analysis.

– Expert interviews

– Mapping