tailieunhanh - Báo cáo "Territorial organization for ecotourism development in Hoang Lien National Park, Sapa District, Lao Cai Province "

Hoang Lien National Park, what is located in Sa Pa District, Lao Cai Province, has been planned to develop priority in ecological tourism because the park is composed by many ecological systems with the most diversiform biology in Vietnam. Here exists many endemic species, beautiful landscapes, as well as typical cultures of local inhabitants. According to statistical data, the number of tourism arrivals to the area grew up rapidly. Since 2000 to 2006, the figure was increased by . There was a continual increase in its tourism revenue as well as diversity in its effective tours. However, many principles. | VNU Journal of Science Earth Sciences 24 2008 1-9 Territorial organization for ecotourism development in Hoang Lien National Park Sapa District Lao Cai Province Nguyen Thi Hai Nguyen Thi Quy Hoi Tran Thi Mai Hoa Department of Geography College of Science VNU Received 8 March 2008 received in revised form 24 June 2008 Abstract. Hoang Lien National Park what is located in Sa Pa District Lao Cai Province has been planned to develop priority in ecological tourism because the park is composed by many ecological systems with the most diversiform biology in Vietnam. Here exists many endemic species beautiful landscapes as well as typical cultures of local inhabitants. According to statistical data the number of tourism arrivals to the area grew up rapidly. Since 2000 to 2006 the figure was increased by . There was a continual increase in its tourism revenue as well as diversity in its effective tours. However many principles of ecotourism were not fully applied. Little profit was shared among local community while most of revenue came back to outsiders. The result was the degradation of the national park s environment and its natural resources in spite of the development of tourism. Moreover the living standard of local people was not much improved 21 of households lived in poor condition without any benefit from tourism activities. To sustainably develop tourism in the park simultaneously to support local community in preservation and socio-economic development there is a need of researching and organizing tourism territory. Hence based on analysis and assessment of related resources the paper is focused on suggesting some orientations for tourism territorial organization of Hoang Lien National Park. The obtained results show that the territory for ecotourism should be divided into three sub-regions coinciding with its current functional zones of the park prohibited area limited area and area open for tourism development. Other relevant solutions such as operating .