TTLV: Developing religious tourism in Bac Lieu province

INFORMATION ABOUT THE MASTER'S THESIS

1. Student's full name:Le Thi Kim Ngoan                                

2. Gender: Female

3. Date of birth: September 12, 1991

4. Place of birth: Bac Lieu

5. Decision on student admission No. 2811/2016/QD-XHNV, dated August 18, 2016, by the Rector of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

6. Changes in the training process: None

7. Thesis title:Developing religious tourism in Bac Lieu province.

8. Major: Tourism; Code: Pilot Program

9. Scientific supervisor:Assoc. Prof. Dr. Trieu The Viet- University of Social Sciences and Humanities - Vietnam National University, Hanoi

10. Summary of the thesis results:

The main purpose of the thesis "Developing Religious and Spiritual Tourism in Bac Lieu Province" is to assess the current state of tourism development at typical religious and spiritual sites in the province, thereby recommending solutions to overcome limitations and create conditions to promote the development of religious and spiritual tourism in Bac Lieu province. The research results will contribute to guiding the exploitation of tourism resources, creating momentum to promote Bac Lieu as one of the key areas for religious and spiritual tourism in the Mekong Delta region. The thesis results consist of four main parts:

Firstly, a comprehensive scoring system for evaluating religious tourism resources in Bac Lieu province was developed based on interviews with 100 people of various ages, both within and outside Bac Lieu province.

Secondly, a composite scoring system was applied to assess the feasibility of exploiting tourism resources at religious sites in Bac Lieu province. The results showed that Quan Am Buddhist Temple and Tac Say Church are two of the most prominent religious sites with the potential to boost tourism development.

Thirdly, the study assesses the current state of tourism development at Quan Am Buddhist Temple and Tac Say Church, identifying the advantages and disadvantages in the development of religious tourism in Bac Lieu province based on interviews with 200 tourists at the site.

Fourth, based on the evaluation results, the author proposes solutions to overcome existing limitations and offers recommendations to improve and promote the development of religious tourism in Bac Lieu province.

11. Practical applications:

The research findings provide local authorities, state tourism management agencies, tourism businesses, tourism industry workers, and local people with an overview of the current state of religious tourism development in the province. This will enable them to develop appropriate improvement and investment strategies to promote religious tourism in particular and tourism in Bac Lieu province in general. Furthermore, the research results also propose a set of standards for evaluating the "attractiveness" criterion in the comprehensive cultural resource assessment scale, which can be applied to evaluate religious sites both within and outside the province.

12. Future research directions:

Firstly, select different research sites with a large sample size to assess the potential for resource exploitation and the current state of tourism development at typical religious sites in other localities or regions.

Secondly, expand the scope of in-depth research on the relationship between ordinary tourists and religious tourists.

13. Published works related to the thesis: None

MASTER THESIS INFORMATION

1. Full name: Le Thi Kim Ngoan 2. Gender: Female

3. Date of birth: September 12th, 1991 4. Place of birth: Bac Lieu Province

5. Decision on Recognition of Trainees No: 2811/2016 /QD-XHNV, August 18th, 2016 by the Rector of University of Social Sciences and Humanities – Hanoi National University.

6. Changes in the training process: No changes

7. Thesis title: Developing religious tourism in Bac Lieu

8. Major: Tourism Code: pilot study

9. Academic instructor: Assoc. Prof. Trieu The Viet

10. Summary of the results of the thesis:

The purpose of the study “Developing religious tourism in Bac Lieu” is to assess the development of tourism in some typical religious places in Bac Lieu province to offer solutions to solve difficulties and promote the development of religious tourism in Bac Lieu province. Research results will contribute to the orientation of the exploitation of religious tourism resource and foster Bac Lieu province to become one of the core areas of the religious tourism in the Mekong Delta. The results of the study consist of 4 main parts as below:

First, the author builds the synthetic scale to assess religious tourism resources in Bac Lieu province on the basis of interviewing 100 people living in Bac Lieu and another province.

Second, the author uses the method of evaluation thanks to synthetic scale to assess some religious places in Bac Lieu province. The results show that Quan Am Phat Dai and Tac Say Church are the most famous religious areas in Bac Lieu province which can help develop tourism.

Third, the author accesses the development of tourism in Quan Am Phat Dai and Tac Say Church to determine advantages and disadvantages of the development of religious tourism in Bac Lieu on the basis of interviewing 200 tourists visiting Quan Am Phat Dai and Tac Say church.

Final, through the results, the author offers some solutions to solve the current difficulties and give some recommendations to improve and impulse the development of religious tourism in Bac Lieu province.

11. Practice applicability:

Particularly, the research results provide local authorities, state authorities in tourism, tour operators, tourism workers and local people with the development of religious tourism in Bac Lieu province at the present to have improving directions and reasonable investments to impulse the development of religious tourism not only in Quan Am Phat Dai and Tac Say church but also in the entire Bac Lieu province.

12. Recommendation for further research:

First, select other research sites of larger sample size so as to access the tourism resource exploitation and the current development of religious tourism in another province or other areas.

Second, widing specializes research direction about the relation between normal tourists and religious tourists.

13. Published works related to thesis: No