Social impacts of tourism development on local community: A case study at dong Hoa Hiep village, Cai Be district, Tien Giang province

Le Thi To Quyen *

* Corresponding author (lttquyen@ctu.edu.vn)

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Received: 25 Mar 2016
Revised: 23 May 2016
Accepted: 30 Mar 2017
Published: 31 Mar 2017
DOI: 10.22144/ctu.jen.2017.002
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Le, T. T. Q. (2017). Social impacts of tourism development on local community: A case study at dong Hoa Hiep village, Cai Be district, Tien Giang province. CTU Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development , (05), 10-17. https://doi.org/10.22144/ctu.jen.2017.002
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In this research, the author conducted an investigation on both positive and negative social impacts of tourism development on Dong Hoa Hiep's villagers, Tien Giang province by five Likert scale surveyed questionnaires and in depth interviews. The questionnaires carried out a total of 400 local representative villagers used in statistical analyses. The study showed that tourism development created both positive and negative social impacts on local communitties, whereas the social advantages of tourism overweighed its drawbacks. The positive impacts were recognized such as improving in general infrastructures, and increasing the quality of life of local people, while the negative effects were seen rarely oppotunities for local people joining in planning and managing tourism activities of Dong Hoa Hiep village and the insistence of some needed children and vendors on tourists to buy products.
Keywords: Dong Hoa Hiep villagers, local communities, social impacts

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