Some Factors of Communication Tourism Types Affect the Traditional Culture of Ethnic Minorities in the Central Highlands
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VĂN HÓA TRUYỀN THỐNG VÀ PHÁT TRIỂN SOME FACTORS OF COMMUNICATION TOURISM TYPES AFFECT THE TRADITIONAL CULTURE OF ETHNIC MINORITIES IN THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS Nguyen Duy Dung Vietnam Academy for Ethnic Minorities he Central Highlands is an area with a large community of Email: [email protected] Tethnic minorities to be living. In the process of integration into the world economy, community tourism are one of the Received: 15/2/2020 economic sectors that are interested in developing in our country Reviewed: 25/2/2020 in general and the Central Highlands area in particular.Although Revised: 7/3/2020 the activity has not been long, but it can be said that tourism Accepted: 20/3/2020 and community tourism are the basis and premise to contribute Released: 31/3/2020 to the socio-economic development of the Central Highlands; contribute to restoring many traditional cultural values of DOI: ethnic groups. For a variety of subjective and objective reasons, https://doi.org/10.25073/0866-773X/395 tourism activity and community tourism have affected ethnic lifestyles, customs and culture in both positive and limited ways. This is an issue that needs to be considered for research, with practical implications for sustainable tourism activities to create momentum for economic development and cultural preservation of ethnic groups in the Central Highlands area in the period of accelerating industrialization, nationalization and international economic integration. Keywords: Community tourism; Traditional culture; Ethnic minorities in the Central Highlands; Ethnic minority and mountainous areas. 1. Introduction admire, enjoy their traditional cultural values but The Central Highlands is a particularly important also make an impact on ethnic cultural values, to strategic area for national security and defense. the transformation of traditional cultural elements, It contains many economic values of natural customs, practices, daily life of the people here. resources and imprints with traditionaltypical Although tourism activity and community tourism culture of the community of ethnic minorities in the Central Highlands area is still developing in the Central Highlands being preserved and slowly compared to other provinces and cities in developed. The Central Highlands is an area with the whole country, however, in the past timethere a large community of ethnic minorities to be living. have been many issues that need to be researched In the process of deep integration into the world recently, especially the impacts on cultural and economy, tourism has been gradually developing socio-economic life in the Central Highlands widely in the Central Highlands provinces in provinces in the context of international economic particular and throughout the country in general, integration. the Central Highlands ethnic minorities have 2. Research overview participated in many tourism activities contributing In recent years, there have been many researche to the development of this “smokeless” economic works on tourism, community tourism in ethnic sector. The main tourism activities are gradually minority and mountainous areas, especially some being realized, invested, to create the diversity of typical ones such as: tourism economy in the Central Highlands area. In - Some research works on tourism in ethnic particular, tourism activity and community tourism minority and mountainous areas such as: Tran have a positive impact on traditional cultural values Dang Hieu (2007), Some solutions to contribute to of the Central Highlands ethnic minorities, not building and developing sustainable tourism in the only creating attraction for visitors to the great Northwest of Vietnam, Master Thesis, University land of Truong Son, coming to ethnic minorities to 128 JOURNAL OF ETHNIC MINORITIES RESEARCH VĂN HÓA TRUYỀN THỐNG VÀ PHÁT TRIỂN of Social Sciences and Humanities, Hanoi National the lives and quality of the people, eradicate poverty University; Pham Trung Luong (2008), Scientific in ethnic minority and mountainous areas in general basis of island tourism developmentin the North and Central Highlands in particular in the context Central Coast tourism area, Scientifictopic of stepping up industrialization, modernization and at branch level, Hanoi; Nguyen Thi Huyen global economic integration. 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Although, at present, Central Highlands with sustainable development, the Central Highlands is still poor, people’s lives Electronic People’s Police Newspaper, issued on are still difficult, especially for ethnic minorities June 8th, 2017; Le Trung, “Untie community tourism in remote areas but with very rich and diverse because The Central Highlands has things that other potentials in agriculture, forestry and minerals... and places do not”, Tuoi Tre Online Newspaper, issued the “gifts” of nature that this place is a testament to on June 11st, 2017; Truong Sy Tam, Community the resources of the Central Highlands in the cause tourism - applicability in the Central Highlands, of socialism building. 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Therefore, the Forum Newspaper, issued on August 2nd, 2019; Tuan Central Highlands has attracted people and laborers Anh (2019), Developing community tourism and from all over the country to do business and live, in agricultural tourism associated with the program of order to implement a major undertakings, policy of new rural construction, Photo Newspaper of Ethnic the Party and the State on the redistribution of labor Minorities and Mountainous Areas, issued on July and population in the whole society. th 30 , 2019; Van Thanh (2019), Is community tourism 4.2. Potential for tourism development, in the Central Highlands still open? Electronic community tourism People’s Police Newspaper, issued on November In terms of economy, tourism in the Central 18th, 2019;… Highlands area has many advantages in tourism In general, the research works focus on a number of resources, which is the area for Central and local opinions, orientations, impacts and solutions to tourism branch to invest and exploit. Humanistic develop community tourism, contribute to improving and natural environment landscape is the potential of Volume 9, Issue 1 129 VĂN HÓA TRUYỀN THỐNG VÀ PHÁT TRIỂN ecotourism and cultural tourism, adventure tourism, a healthy climate for health, they can create great resort tourism. These are natural and cultural attraction for tourists from all over the country and landscapes in provinces of the Central Highlands area international visitors from many countries around such as Da Dat (Lam Dong), Lang Biang mountain the world. (Lac Duong district), Truc Lam Zen Monastery 4.3. Some factors of community tourism (Lam Dong), Cam Ly Waterfall, Tuyen Lam Lake, influence the traditional culture