Generating Environmental Criteria And Indicators In Monitoring And Assessing Sustainable Tourism In Ba Vi District Hanoi Vietnam

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MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT

VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF FORESTRY

STUDENT THESIS

Generating environmental criteria and indicators in monitoring and

assessing sustainable tourism in Ba Vi District, Hanoi, Vietnam

Major: Natural Resources Management

Code: D850101

Faculty: Forest Resources and Environmental Management

Student: Bui Thuy Linh Student ID: 1553090425

Class: K60 Natural Resources Management Course: 2015 – 2019

Advanced Education Program

Developed in collaboration with Colorado State University, USA

Supervisor: Ph.D. Nguyen Thi Thanh An

Hanoi, 2019

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

To complete this thesis, I received assistance and supports from my

supervisor and departments of Vietnam national university of forestry as well

as tourism organizations. I am very grateful to Ba Vi National Park’s staffs,

who helped and provided necessary information to me. I also thank the staffs

in the People's Committee of Ba Vi District, Ao Vua Joint Stock Company for

helping me to collect data.

Especially I would like to thank my supervisor Ph.D. Nguyen Thi Thanh

An, who directly supported me throughout the process of conducting the thesis,

for her patience, motivation, enthusiasm, and immense knowledge. Her

guidance helped me all the time in studying and writing this thesis.

I sincerely thank you!

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TABLE OF CONTENT

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ...................................................................................i

TABLE OF CONTENT ......................................................................................ii

TABLE LIST......................................................................................................iv

FIGURE LIST.....................................................................................................v

ABSTRACT........................................................................................................1

CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION........................................................................2

CHAPTER II. GOALS AND OBJECTIVES .....................................................4

2.1. Goals.............................................................................................................4

2.2. Objectives.....................................................................................................4

CHAPTER III. STUDY SITE AND METHODOLOGY...................................5

3.1. Study site ......................................................................................................5

3.1.1. Natural conditions.....................................................................................6

3.1.2. Current situation of population and humanities resources........................8

3.2. Methodology ................................................................................................9

3.2.1. Process of implementing the topic ............................................................9

3.2.2. Methods of general information collection.............................................10

3.2.3. Delphi method .........................................................................................11

3.2.4. Statistical analysis...................................................................................14

CHAPTER IV. RESULTS................................................................................20

4.1. Current situation of tourism development in Ba Vi District......................20

4.1.1. Tourism development potential...............................................................20

4.1.2. The main types of Ba Vi Tourism...........................................................22

4.1.3. Challenges for tourism development of Ba Vi District ..........................24

4.2. Generating environmental criteria and indicators in monitoring and

assessing sustainable tourism in Ba Vi District, Hanoi, Vietnam.....................24

4.2.1. Test results in round 1 .............................................................................27

4.2.2. Test results in round 2 .............................................................................34

CHAPTER V. CONCLUSIONS AND LIMITATIONS OF THE TOPIC ......44

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5.1. General conclusions and contributions to the topic ...................................44

5.2. Limitations of the topic ..............................................................................45

REFERENCES

APPENDIX

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TABLE LIST

Table 1. The number of tourists in 2016-2018 in Ba Vi District......................20

Table 2: List of tourism business in Ba Vi District, Hanoi...............................21

Table 3: Recommended criteria and indicators for consultation with experts on

sustainable tourism monitoring and evaluation in Ba Vi District, Hanoi,

Vietnam in round 1............................................................................................25

Table 4: Statistical description of evaluation results of experts after round 1..28

Table 5: Test results by Friedman test round 1.................................................30

Table 6: Calculation results of Cronbach’s Alpha in round 1 ..........................30

Table 7: Calculation results of Intraclass Correlation Coefficient in round 1..31

Table 8: A summary of criteria removed after round 1 ....................................32

Table 9: A summary of some general ideas for indicators removed after round

1 .........................................................................................................................32

Table 10: Recommended criteria and indicators for consultation with experts

on sustainable tourism monitoring and evaluation in Ba Vi District, Hanoi,

Vietnam in round 2............................................................................................34

Table 11: Statistical description of evaluation results of experts after round 2.......36

Table 12: Test results by Friedman test round 2...............................................38

Table 13: Calculation results of Cronbach’s Alpha in round 2 ........................38

Table 14: Calculation results of Intraclass Correlation Coefficientin round 2 .....39

Table 15: Set of environmental criteria and indicators to monitoring and

assessing sustainable tourism after 2 Delphi rounds.........................................40

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FIGURE LIST

Figure 1. Ba Vi Tourism Map .............................................................................5

Figure 2: The thesis’s analysis framework........................................................10