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Factors Affecting the Formation and Development of River Tourism


1.1.2.3. The role of river tourism

* For people's lives

- River tourism actively participates in the process of generating revenue for localities from tourism service activities such as: producing souvenirs, processing and consuming food, building infrastructure, technical facilities, etc.

- Contribute significantly to creating jobs for workers in the tourism exploitation area.

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- Strengthen exchanges and connections with localities inside and outside the province and city in investing in tourism development in particular and economic development in general.

* For the tourism industry

Factors Affecting the Formation and Development of River Tourism

- First of all, river tourism brings tourists many interesting things, especially for those who like to explore the culture of the people living on both sides of the river as well as the typical art forms of the river region.

- River tourism brings high economic benefits to participating organizations and people on both sides of the river; associated with the process of economic restructuring, making tourism an economic sector with truly important contributions to socio-economic development.

- Developing sustainable river tourism, closely linked to preserving and promoting national cultural values; preserving landscapes, protecting the environment; ensuring security, national defense, and social order and safety.

1.1.2.4. River tourism products

According to Chu Van Binh, river tourism products “are comprehensive tourism products in which entertainment, sightseeing, dining, relaxation, and transportation activities are closely linked to river nature. Tourism services are provided right on the river or along the riverbank. In particular, the development of river tourism products must go hand in hand with the development of the economic life of local people and the protection of the river ecological environment” (Chu Van Binh, 2015).

River tourism product groups

- River tour product group: with SPDLDS, tourists can


You can use services such as yachts, canoes, hydrofoils to visit the beauty of both sides of the river with fresh and cool air, learn about the customs, activities as well as typical dishes of the indigenous people. On luxury yachts, visitors can relax on the river and enjoy artistic performances, unique dishes with attentive and dedicated service.

- River resort tourism products: combining routes with tourist destinations, river tourism products create a fun and relaxing space for tourists with nature after hard working days. Along with good services of luxury hotels and resorts at destinations or floating hotels on rivers and canals will bring tourists the most comfortable resting time.

- Group of river adventure tourism products: on the river sections that have been planned for river tourism development, tourists can participate in thrilling games associated with the river such as: windsurfing with canoes, kayaking to test their strength and experience themselves. This group of products will bring an interesting and exciting feeling to tourists who want to explore new things and love sports.

1.1.2.5. Factors affecting the formation and development of river tourism

* Geographical location

In the process of forming and developing tourism, geographical location is considered an important resource. It has great significance in terms of transportation, communication and exchange. Geographical location includes: natural geographical location (limited territory and geographical coordinates), economic - social and political location.

In addition, to evaluate the development potential of tourist destinations, it is necessary to consider the decisive factor of geographical location conditions, which is that the tourist destination is located in a tourism development area and the distance from the tourist destinations to tourist destinations is short. Therefore, when analyzing and evaluating geographical location, it is necessary to put it in the scope of the region, country, area and international.


* Tourism resources

Including natural tourism resources and human tourism resources.

- Natural tourism resources are objects and phenomena in the natural environment surrounding us that are attracted to tourism activities, affecting observers through their external shape. In which, the strongest impact of natural components on tourism is terrain, climate, hydrology and biological resources.

- Human tourism resources are created by humans, so they have artificial origins and are imbued with the culture of each region and territory. Human tourism resources are divided into: World cultural heritage and historical - cultural and architectural relics; festivals; tourism objects associated with ethnology; cultural objects, sports and other cognitive activities.

Tourism in general and river tourism in particular, tourism resources are one of the premises for the formation and development of tourism in a region or locality. Tourism resources play a key role, deciding the formation and creating attractiveness for the formation of tourism types, and are the basic factors for creating tourism products.

However, for river tourism, not every river can form river tourism routes. To be able to exploit tourism, first of all, the river must have aesthetic features that attract tourists such as elegant riverside scenery, along the river there are many heritages, relics, cultural works or on the river there are waterfalls, rapids serving adventure tourism. Or the river must be associated with a historical event or have appeared in a famous literary, poetic or cinematic work. In addition, the geographical and natural characteristics of the river such as length, width, hydrological regime also greatly affect the design of river tourism routes. A river that is too narrow or too shallow will hardly bring the experience of an open, gentle space of river tourism to tourists. A river that is too narrow also makes the circulation of cruise ships and boats more difficult when the number of boats increases suddenly. Water environment should also be paid attention because there are no tourists.


Who would want to cruise on a river full of garbage and stinking?

At the same time, for river tourism to develop strongly and attract tourists, there must be a connection between activities on the river and on land. River tourism will be less attractive without activities on land. A perfect river tourism route must have a connection with activities to visit scenic spots, historical sites, temples, or participate in community tourism activities with local residents on both sides of the river, or tourists can stop to fish on the riverbank, ... to create richness and attractiveness for the river tourism journey.

* Human resources

This is an important factor, decisive in the economic growth and development of every country. In the field of tourism in general and river tourism in particular, the human resources mentioned are tourism workers, especially tour guides. Because each river tourism route has a certain itinerary and passes through many unique and not easily recognizable beautiful landscapes, tour guides must know how to introduce the characteristics of natural landscapes, wildlife, the lives of residents along the river, or introduce the unique architectural works and cultural works appearing on the route in different languages. This requires tour guides to have rich local knowledge and abundant foreign language skills, good communication skills. In addition to tour guides of travel companies, training local people to become non-professional tour guides is also a necessary factor. These people will be the source of additional, new, practical information in addition to the official information provided by tour guides from travel companies.

* Infrastructure - technical facilities

- Infrastructure

Infrastructure in general is of particular importance for promoting tourism development. In this regard, transport networks and means of transport are of primary importance.


Tourism in general and river tourism in particular are associated with the movement of people over a certain distance. It depends on the road network and means of transport. An object may be attractive to tourists, but still cannot be exploited without the transport factor. The development of transport, especially the rapid increase in means of transport (public and private) allows the effective exploitation of new tourism resources quickly. Therefore, only through a convenient and fast transport network can tourism become a popular phenomenon in society.

Although the means of transport for river tourism circulate at a slow speed, it creates conditions for tourists to be entertained, to immerse themselves in the nature of the river, to feel the coolness of the water vapor on the river, to admire the scenery and many interesting things along both sides of the river, giving tourists a feeling of excitement. And here it is necessary to mention the safety and suitability of the means of transport. Depending on the characteristics of each river and each type of tourism, choose the appropriate means of transport, traditional or modern ships and boats, large or small sizes, or what type of kayak for adventure tourism to cross rapids and waterfalls. Or there is a combination of alternating trips by boat in sections with suitable water depth and trips by car or motorbike on the road in shallow, inconvenient water sections for boating. But no matter which type of boat is chosen, the safety of these types must be focused on, ensuring the safety of both the vehicle and the tourists. The safety factor must always be put first to create peace of mind and trust of tourists.

Besides, communication is also an important part of the infrastructure of tourism activities in general and river tourism in particular. It is a necessary condition to ensure information for domestic and international tourists. Communication is the need to exchange different news streams of society that is satisfied by many types of communication with different forms of tourism promotion.

If the transportation network and means of transport serve the travel of people, then communication is responsible for the efficient transport of news.


quickly and promptly, contributing to the implementation of domestic and international exchanges. Thanks to the advances of science and technology, the means of communication are increasingly rich and modern. Undersea cable systems, information satellites, computer systems and telegraphs, telephones, and the Internet are increasingly used and become an indispensable part of life. Modern information systems allow the transmission and reception of information and images anywhere on Earth. From there, contributing to the development of river tourism.

In the infrastructure serving tourism, we must also mention the system of electricity and water supply works whose products directly serve the recreation of visitors. Thus, infrastructure is the premise and becomes the lever of all economic activities, including river tourism.

- Facilities and techniques

Technical infrastructure plays a very important role in the process of creating tourism products, as well as deciding the level of exploitation of tourism potentials to satisfy the needs of tourists. Therefore, the development of river tourism is always associated with the construction and completion of infrastructure.

- technique.

Technical facilities include many components with different functions and have a certain significance for creating tourism products. With the purpose of meeting the needs of large-scale tourism, it is necessary to build corresponding technical facilities such as hotels, restaurants, shops, gas stations, medical stations, sports facilities, etc. The central part of technical facilities is the facilities serving the guests' eating, resting and entertainment facilities. Thus, it can be said that technical facilities have an important significance, creating favorable conditions for tourists to ensure their spirit, health and fully satisfy their needs during their trip.

* Investment policies

There is potential but lack of investment also cannot form the desired type of tourism. The investment role of the state and enterprises in developing river tourism can be divided into two directions. On the state side, there will be investment in the form of


create basic infrastructure, initial infrastructure for the private sector to continue to develop; support training of local people in tour guide skills; invest in building a strict regulatory system to effectively manage river tourism business activities... On the business side, invest in forming tours with clear schedules, reasonable prices, specific information, build a team of tour guides for your business, invest in purchasing boats, vehicles to serve the company's tours, continue to build necessary infrastructure for operations... Thereby creating conditions for river tourism to develop and operate effectively.

* Political security, social security

A peaceful country, with strong national defense and security and a stable society are conditions to ensure safety, create a peaceful environment for the country and attract a large number of tourists to visit. On the contrary, a world of political instability, ethnic and religious conflicts affects tourism development, meaning it does not fulfill its "mission" for tourism, causing skepticism and fear for tourists.

Thus, the close coordination between national defense and security with tourism activities as well as other economic sectors is extremely important. Peace and political stability are also the levers for tourism to continuously develop and become the country's spearhead economic sector.

Conditions for ensuring health against epidemics (SARS, H1N1 flu , dengue fever, tuberculosis, etc. ) also greatly affect the psychology and needs of tourists, shortening their visiting time. In addition, natural disasters (such as earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, etc.) causing insecurity are also factors that significantly affect the ability to attract tourists of countries and territories.

* Need for rest and travel

The need for tourism and its changes over time and space has become one of the important factors affecting the birth and development of tourism, which is the human need to restore health and working ability.


physical and mental energy is wasted in the process of living and working.

The need for tourism and recreation is a system and is expressed at 3 levels: social - group - individual. It has a socio-economic nature and is a product of social development. It is formed in the process of socio-economic development under the influence of objective factors of the external environment and depends primarily on the mode of production.

In the continuous development of social production, tourism is an inevitable demand of people when the socio-economic level and people's intelligence are increasingly developed. People always want to conquer the outside world, want to improve their knowledge, want to admire beautiful scenery, or want to rest, have fun, etc. This leads to the formation of many types of tourism with many different motives and purposes of people during the trip.

* Living conditions

The living conditions of the population are an important factor for tourism development. It is formed by increasing real income and improving living conditions, improving food rations, fully developing health, cultural, educational networks, etc.

Tourism can only develop when people's living standards reach a certain level. One of the key factors is the real income of each person in society. Without a high income, it is difficult to think about leisure and tourism. In general, in developed countries with high per capita income, the demand and tourism activities actually develop strongly.

* Free time

Domestic and international tourism cannot develop if people lack free time, which is necessary for people to improve their education, develop their intelligence, fulfill their social functions, meet friends and have fun. It has really become one of the important factors promoting tourism activities.

The amount of free time depends on the productivity of labor, the characteristics of production relations and the population. To increase free time, it is necessary to reduce the length of the working week and reduce the time spent on housework. In many countries in the world, the 5-day working week has been implemented. In this way, workers have more time.

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