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MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND
TRAINING
MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Phouthone LUANG VI LAY
STATE MANAGEMENT OF TOURISM IN
LUANG PRA BANG PROVINCE OF LAO PRD
Specialization:Public Management
Code: 09 34 04 03
SUMMARY OF THE PUBLIC MANAGEMENT
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION
HA NOI, 2019
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The thesisis completed at: NATIONAL ACADEMY OF PUBLIC
ADMINISTRATION
Science instructor:1.Dr. LUONG MINH VIET
2. Associate Professor. Dr. PHAM DUC CHINH
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The thesis can be found at the Library: National Library of Vietnam
or the National Academy of Public Administration library
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LIST OF PUBLISHED WORKS
RELATED TO THE THESIS
Article 1: Solution to develop tourism of Luang Pra Bang province, Lao PDR
+ Author: Phouthone LUANGVILAY
+ Magazine: State management
+ No. 258 (7/2017); Page: 110 (110-112)
Article 2: Some solutions to strengthen state management of tourism in Luang
Pra Bang province, Lao PDR
+ Author: Phouthone LUANGVILAY
+ Magazine: Natural Resources and Environment
+ No 20 (274), (10/2017); Page: 36 (36-37)
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INTRODUCTION
1. The urgency of the thesis topic
Luang Pra Bang is a province with advantages of natural and human
resources, beautiful landscapes, clean climate and Muong Luang Pra Bang
district, the former capital, which is recognized as the "World Heritage
District" by the Education, Science and Literature Organization.
(UNESCO) on December 9
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, 1995 with great potential for tourism
development, especially the types of ecotourism, mountainous resorts and
sightseeing attractions, cultural history... From the Sixth Provincial Party
Congress (2010) to now, Luang Pra Bang’s authority has always identified
the tourism industry as an important economic industry of the province and
in the past years, the tourism industry of Luang Pra Bang has been
achieved the good growth rate , contributing to increase the proportion of
the service sector in the economic structure of the province and the trend of
economic restructuring in the province.
However, in fact, the development of tourism industry of Luang Pra
Bang is still not commensurate with the inherent potential of comparative
advantages of the locality. Because the authority has not enough conditions
to exploit and the state management for the tourism industry also has
inadequacies for creating a favorable economic, legal and social
environment to develop tourism. State management on planning and
implementation of sector planning, development perspective, thinking,
mechanisms, policies for sector development and investment and
investment attraction of the province are limited and weak. The tourism
industry has not really taken advantage. The number of tourists coming to
Luang Pra Bang is not much. The average number of days of staying and
the capacity of rooms are still low. The consumption level of guests
coming to Luang Pra Bang is still at the level of very modest. The tourism
industry's contribution to the local budget is not much compared to the
development demand. The structure of the tourism industry in the
provincial economic structure is still low ... If this situation persists, the
tourism industry will hardly become an important economic sector of the
province. Therefore, scientific and systematic study is to find state
management solutions to promote the development of Luang Pra Bang's
tourism industry, to make this industry really important in near future.
Based on the above issues, I chose the topic: "State management of
tourism in Luang Pra Bang province of Lao PDR" to study and write a
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Public Management Doctoral Dissertation. This is an urgent topic and
meaningful both in theory and practice.
2. Research purposes and tasks of the thesis
2.1. Research purposes
On the basis of clarifying the theory and practice of state
management of tourism in Luang Pra Bang province, the thesis proposes
orientations and solutions to improve state management of tourism in
Luang Pra Bang province.
2.2. Tasks of the thesis
In order to achieve the above objectives, the thesis performs the
following tasks:
+ Overview of domestic and foreign research related to state
management of tourism in Luang Pra Bang province.
+ Systematizing, selecting and supplementing the theoretical basis on
state management of tourism in the provincial level.
+ Studying the experience of state management on tourism of some
cities in foreign countries to draw lessons for state management on tourism
at the provincial level.
+ Analyzing and assessing the actual state management of tourism in
Luang Pra Bang province in recent years, in-depth study of the contents of
state management on tourism, showing the advantages, limitations and
causes of restrictions on state management of tourism in Luang Pra Bang
province over the past time.
+ Proposing directions and solutions to improve state management of
tourism in Luang Pra Bang province.
3. Subjects and scope of research
3.1. Research subjects:
The thesis focuses on researching state management activities on
tourism in Luang Pra Bang province.
3.2. Scope of research:
+ Regarding the content: State management activities on tourism.
+ Regarding the space: The thesis studies all state management
activities on tourism in Luang Pra Bang province. Researching the
experience of a number of overseas localities is mainly through published
documents.
+ Regarding the time: Researching on state management of tourism
since 2011 (the first year of implementing the tourism strategy for the
period 2011-2020) up to now and vision to 2030.