Ecotourism Development Strategy of Cuc Phuong National Park in Vietnam

Bui Duc Sinh

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The overall purpose of this study is to obtain an understanding of Cuc Phuong National Park residents’ perceptions and satisfaction to ward ecotourism impacts as well as their attitudes for ecotourism development. In addition, this study also points out the main issues of current ecotourism strategies in Cuc Phuong National Park.

Method: Measurement of dispersion of the data using the standard deviation of the measurement. According to the framework, residents’ perceptions of tourism impact as well as their satisfaction of tourism impacts and their attitude for additional tourism development are determined by their socio-demographic characteristics.

Results: The results showed that in general, people had perception about tourism impacts, especially, people in young age group, high income and education groups. However, there were amount of respondents who did not see the benefit of tourism and appeared unconcerned or ambivalent about tourism development contributing their living condition in many aspects of tourism impacts.

Conclusion: the authority of Cuc Phuong National Park must recognize the perception, satisfaction and attitudes of local resident toward tourism impact in unit and tourism development in general and then building ecotourism strategies based on ecotourism criteria and put the local community interests first or is so- called local community-centeredness.


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