TTLV: Research on seafood culinary products serving tourists in Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa

1. Student's name: Vo Minh Hong

2. Gender: Female

3. Date of birth: February 5, 1984

4. Place of birth: Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa

5. Student recognition decision No. 3379/2017/QD-XHNV dated December 19, 2017 of the President of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

6. Changes in training process: No

7. Thesis topic name:Research on seafood culinary products serving tourists in Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa.

8. Major: Tourism; Code: TD

9. Scientific supervisor: Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Pham Hung - Working unit: Faculty of Tourism Studies; University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi

10. Summary of thesis results:

The thesis has reviewed the research on Nha Trang seafood cuisine to serve tourism development in both theoretical and practical aspects. The thesis conducted a survey and evaluated the current status of exploiting seafood products to serve tourists in Nha Trang, focusing on researching the exploitation conditions, services, and characteristics of Nha Trang seafood products, the difficulties and advantages in bringing seafood cuisine into tourism development. The thesis also proposes solutions to contribute to improving the efficiency of exploiting seafood culinary products to serve tourism development in Nha Trang such as enhancing service types, improving technical facilities for seafood culinary tourism, enhancing product promotion activities, improving the quality of labor force, inspection, control, price management, food product quality and food hygiene and safety issues, combining culinary tours with local cuisine, diversifying seafood culinary products to serve tourists, contributing to the development of tourism in Nha Trang in particular and Khanh Hoa in general.

11. Practical applicability: Reference document for restaurants and hotels in Nha Trang.

12. Further research directions: Research on Khanh Hoa culinary culture to serve tourism development.

13. Published works related to the thesis: None

INFORMATION ON MASTER'S THESIS

1. Full name: Vo Minh Hong 2. Sex: Female

3. Date of birth: 05/02/1984. 4. Place of birth: Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa

5. Admission decision number: 3379/2017/QD-XHNV Dated December 19, 2017

6. Changes in academic process: None

7. Official thesis title: Study of the sea cuisine to serve tourists in Nha Trang

8. Major: Tourism. Code: TD

9. Supervisors: Dr. Nguyen Pham Hung

10. Summary of the findings of the thesis:

The article focused on presenting the status of exploring the sea cuisine to serve toursits in Nha Trang in both theoretical and practical aspects. It conducts surveys and assesses the status of exploiting the sea cuisine for tourists in Nha Trang, focusing on researching the conditions of exploitation, services, the specificity of them. Since then, I give some solutions to improve it: Developing the tourist market, diversifying into the sea cuisine and kind of service, perfecting facilities for the cuisine tourism, enhancing on promotion activites of cuisine and culture, improving on the quality of cooking team, enhancing on the irrigation, price management, quality of products and food safety, mix of tour, local cuisine, contributing to tourism development in particular to Nha Trang, in general to Khanh Hoa.

11. Practical applicability, if any: A reference for restaurants and hotels in Nha Trang.

12. Further research directions, if any: Study of the Khanh Hoa cuisine culture to serve tourism development

13. Thesis-related publications: None