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Tourism With the Integration and Development of Vietnam—Southeast Asia



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Huynh Quoc Thang

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DOI:10.17265/2328-2134/2018.03.004

Due to its intrinsic and functional characteristics, tourism can be viewed as a special activity that is both an agent and a result, and is itself a concrete manifestation of the process of human the process of developing social life. Especially in the context of industrialization, modernization, and globalization today, along with the “information society and the knowledge economy”, tourism can both be an important cultural interchange channel, and can become a “smoke-free industry” playing a key economic role. Through the development process of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), especially after the ASEAN Community (AC) was formed (October 2003) with three pillars, especially with the initiative of the Asean Tourism Association (ASEANTA), in fact, it is proving that... By the basis of history-culture and geo-economic conditions have opened up favorable prospects; in coming time through proactive solutions, tourism may become a focal point associated with strategies to accelerate the process of integration of Vietnam and Southeast Asia in order to contribute to the sustainable development of the nation, the region, and the whole world.

tourism development, integration process, Vietnam and Southeast Asia