Recommendation to further develop tourism in the destination

Hanoi Open University

Faculty of Tourism

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Members:

Ha Thi Thu Trang

Ho Thu Ngan

Pham Hong Minh

Luong Thi Huyen Trang

Hanoi, May 2009

Tourism Components - Dalat

I. INTRODUCTION.

In each course English, members in our faculty have to do an assignment or

a project to improve our knowledge and our skills as well. And in this HD1

course, we have to do a project about tourism components in group of four

members. This group project aims at researching information and analyzing the

tourism components of a destination in Vietnam.

After being told about this project, we got together and choose Dalat to do

this project. Next, we shared the work together equally. Then each member had

to find information for her part and write down the paragraph. At last, we

gathered all the small parts into a full-done assignment.

We hope that reader will feel interesting with our project and have the necessary

information.

II. BODY.

1. Overview of Dalat.

a. Location and meaning of the name

“Dalat”.

Dalat is the capital of Lam Dong province in Vietnam. Dalat known as “Le

Petit Paris” in Vietnam where is located 1500m (4920 ft) above sea level on the

Langbiang Plateau in the southern parts of the Central Highlands (in

Vietnamese – Tay Nguyen).

According to a myth from the French colonial era, the name derives from

the acronym of the Latin phrase “Dat Aliis Laetitiam Aliis Temperiem”. It

means “giving pleasure to some, freshness to others”. The French colonial

government used in their official emblem of Dalat. In reality, the name derives

from the language of the local ethnic group Lat and its original meaning is

“stream of the Lat” and the acronym above is in fact a back acronym.

b. Geography.

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