MINISTRY OF EDUCATION VIETNAM ACADEMY
AND TRAINING OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
GRADUATE UNIVERSITY SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
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HOANG THI KIEU OANH
Major : Physical Geography
Code : 9 44 02 17
ASSESSMENT TOURISM RESOURCES AND
BIOCLIMATIC CONDITIONS FOR DEVELOPING
TOURISM IN SOUTHERN VIETNAM
SUMMARY OF GEOGRAPHY DOCTORAL DISSERTATION
Hanoi - 2019
The dissertation has been completed at: Graduate University Science
and Technology - Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology
Science advisor 1: Prof. Sc Dr. Nguyen Khanh Van
Science advisor 2: Assoc Prof.Dr. Dang Van Phan
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The thesis will be defended in Doctoral Committee, organized at:
- Location: Graduate University Science and Technology -
Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology
- Time:
The dissertation can be found at:
- Library of Graduate University Science and Technology
- National Library of Vietnam
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INTRODUCTION
1. The relevance of the topic
The future strategy of Vietnam tourism development predition
for 2020 and upto 2030 defines tourism to become spearhead
economic sector with the higher percentage of GDP and create
dynamics for social – economy. The potential of tourism resources of
Southern Vietnam is very high. Its geographical position is located in
the southern key economic region - the driving force of economic
development of the country, on the important international route. The
Southern Vietnam has 3/10 national tourist cities, including 338
national monuments with 13 special national monuments, and one
world intangible cultural heritage. In particular, the Southern Vietnam
has a lot of ecosystems with high biodiversity; 4 World Biosphere
Reserves, 6/9 Ramsa World Zones, 9 National Parks, 7 Biosphere
Protected Areas; 5 nature reserves, 3 species conservation zones. There
are also long and beautiful beaches, systems of islands on the East and
West sides. The climate regime of the Southern Vietnam is favorable
for tourism all year round. The annual temperature amplitude is not too
different, rainfall does not last long, there are very few natural disasters
and floods. It has a huge network of rivers, streams, canals with raft
houses, floating markets on the river, large lakes, waterfalls (Da Han,
Mo), Binh Chau hot springs, high mountain terrain.
In fact, the effectiveness of Southern Vietnam tourism is not
commensurate with its potential. The tourism between South-East and
South-West Region are not evenly developed. Tourism is mostly
concentrated in a number of tourist centers such as Ho Chi Minh City,
Can Tho and Vung Tau with lack of regional connectivity and uneven
distribution in quantity and quality. Tourism products lack specificity
and originality, especially in South-West Region. The infrastructure is
not synchronous, some projects have not been able to promote the
efficiency or abandoned.
At present, there are no topics to study in detail about the role of
Bioclimatic Condition to development of regional tourism. It is
necessary to have further studies, focusing on orientation, determining
the key types of tourism of the Southern Vietnam with high potential to
bring higher efficiency for tourism development in the coming time, to
meet the actual social needs. Four types of tourism selected for
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evaluation in the dissertation are outstanding types such as sightseeing
tourism, relaxation tourism, ecotourism and cultural tourism.
For the above reasons, the PhD student has decided to select
the topic "Assessment tourism resources and bioclimate conditions
to developing tourism in the Southern Vietnam" for her doctoral
dissertation. Hopefully, this dissertation can give the future
orientation to develop 4 types of tourism in Southern Vietnam
effectively. Besides it is also a geographical instruction for tourists
to participate in sightseeing, relaxation, Ecotourism and culture
tourism in the Southern Vietnam.
2. Objectives of dissertation
The aim of this dissertation was to clarify the rationales for the
research and evaluation of tourism resources, bioclimatic conditions
for developing tourism in Southern Vietnam, and propose the
orientation of developing tourism types in Southern Vietnam on the
basis of evaluating tourism resources and bioclimatic conditions
3. Research tasks of dissertation
- Collecting, analyzing and systematizing documents and
materials on the characteristics of tourism resources and bioclimatic
conditions of the research territory.
- Overview of research and evaluation issues of tourism
resources and bioclimatic conditions for the purpose of tourism
development in the world, in Vietnam and in the Southern Vietnam.
- Establishing rationales, research and evaluation methods of
tourism resources, bioclimatic conditions for tourism development.
- Zoning physical geographic regions in Southern Vietnam and
establishing zoning map with scale of 1: 250,000; classifying tourism
bioclimate of Southern Vietnam and establishing bioclimate
classification map with scale of 1: 250,000; installing evaluation
criteria and specification for the advantages of tourism resources and
bioclimatic conditions for developing potential tourism types of
Southern Vietnam.
- Evaluating and synthesizing tourism resources and
bioclimatic conditions for tourism development in every regions and
proposing orientation for developing tourism types in the Southern
Vietnam in every regions.
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CHAPTER 1
RATIONALES, METHODS FOR EVALUATING TOURISM
RESOURCES AND BIOCLIMATIC CONDITIONS FOR
TOURISM DEVELOPMENT
1.1. Overview of relevant scientific researches
1.1.1. Relevant researches on over the world
In the past 9 decades, many research directions for developing
tourism have been established, in which assessing territorial
resources for tourism development is mentioned with many
approaches such as works of Demoders, I.A Vedenhin and N.N.
Misonharrenco (1969), I.I Piriicic (1985), A.G Ixatsenko. Today,
tourism activities have been standardized, managed closely and
monitored with conservation, especially in developed countries,
which is published by Hu and Rit Chie.J (1993), Daniel Leung and
others (2013) , Jianwei Quian et al (2019), C. Lim and J.C.H. Min
(2008), R.Sharley and Telfer (2002).
The history of bioclimatel research has existed for a long time.
Many climate studies are the basis for the development of bioclimate
researchs such as W. Koppen (Germany), Buduco, Alixop, Yeu Am
Sinh, de Freitas et al. , Asgary et al. Climate is the key to forming
many different tourism resources, thereby assessing the role of
climate for each specific tourism resource (Becken (2013), Scott &
Lemieux (2009) and Gomez Martin (2005), Hamilton and Lau
(2005), C. Goh (2012), D. Maddison (2001), Hadwen et al. (2011)).
Currently, many general climate parameters are established in applied
bioclimate such as DI, ET, EI, and HIS, SET, PET, or CIT, TCI
found by Mieczkowski (1985). The TCI index has been developed
and applied in many studies in different territories such as: Amelung
and Moreno, Ghislain Dubois. Many researchers also combined other
climate indexes with TCI, TCI and THI for assessing HCI. TCI index
has developed into various new concepts such as UTCI, TTCI, CIT,
MCIT. In the last 10 years, more and more specific and detailed
studies on applied bioclimate were published, in which the general
trend is the assessments of human adaption with the increasingly
