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Some Solutions for Developing Ecotourism in Co To in a Sustainable Direction

- Marine sports tourism, entertainment, exploration of marine biodiversity;

- Island discovery tour.

- Experiential travel.

- Community tourism “Homestay”

- “Non-traditional” tourism.

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3.1.2. Development orientation.

The consistent orientation for developing the Co To island sea area in the coming period is: Exploiting and promoting fully the available potentials and advantages, seizing opportunities, attracting investment for rapid development, creating a breakthrough in growth and economic restructuring; gradually building Co To into an island area with dynamic economic development, a solid base to protect the sovereignty of the sea and islands of the Fatherland.

Some Solutions for Developing Ecotourism in Co To in a Sustainable Direction

Develop Co To in an open, integrated direction, with a long-term vision and appropriate steps, ensuring rapid, effective and sustainable development. Attract resources for focused and key investment, develop advantageous industries such as seafood, tourism, and marine services. Focus on synchronously building infrastructure systems; implementing preferential and open policies and mechanisms to attract investors to develop production and business on the island. Take economic development as the basis for strengthening national defense and security, while ensuring national defense and security as the number one premise for economic development. Focus on economic development with solving social issues well, constantly improving people's knowledge and living standards; closely combine economic development with protecting, regenerating resources and protecting the ecological environment. Regarding Co To's specific goals from now to 2020: Achieve an average economic growth rate of 18% - 20%/year; Increase the average income per capita from 24 million VND at present to 50 million VND by 2020; strive for economic structure by 2020: services account for 50% (of which tourism accounts for 35%); small-scale industry - construction accounts for 15%; seafood 30%; agriculture and forestry only 5%. Increase the rate of trained workers from 20% in 2020.

2013 to 50% by 2020, meeting the rapidly growing needs of the tourism service and seafood processing industries.

The Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee requested Co To District to speed up the planning process of the District, noting that Co To needs to do a good job in planning the tourism industry, taking advantage of the province's tourism planning, paying attention to zoning, subdivision, and types of tourism. When there is a tourism plan, it will increase investment calls; develop tourism products, have a plan to use land reasonably; develop a plan to train tourism human resources, improve the quality of tourism services... At the same time, pay attention to the management of the tourism business environment, focusing on security and order, traffic safety by sea and road, food safety and hygiene, environmental sanitation, safety at beaches. As well as strengthening propaganda, promotion, and tourism promotion. In addition, the Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee requested the Provincial Police to study and implement a model of granting permits to foreign tourists to the island.

The Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee requested the Department of Transport and the Inland Waterways Port Authority to speed up the inspection of vehicles serving tourists; the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism to coordinate with the district to license a number of tourist beaches, hotels, rest stops, and strengthen the training of human resources for tourism...

Developing homestay-style community tourism brings many benefits to both tourists and local people as well as travel companies. However, besides the existing benefits, there are still issues that need much attention, especially the preservation of cultural identity from the influence and encroachment of foreign cultures.

3.2. Some solutions for sustainable development of ecotourism in Co To

In order for Co To to develop sustainable ecotourism, it is necessary to solve the remaining problems here. Problems such as infrastructure - technical facilities, tourism infrastructure system are not yet complete, methods

The convenience of boats to pick up and drop off tourists has not yet met the demand for ecotourism in the area. Regarding human resource development, there are not many professionally trained service personnel because most of the personnel are mainly untrained local people, and the quality of ecotourism services is still limited. People's knowledge and awareness are still inadequate on environmental protection issues, activities using environmental resources are still spontaneous and pose many potential risks of unsafety for the environment and people. Regarding services, in the years before coming to Co To, tourists often rented houses at reasonable prices, after Co To was connected to the national grid, hotels, restaurants, and motels gradually sprung up more and more. The number of tourists coming to travel is increasing, the situation of overcharging during the tourist season causes room prices to double because supply cannot meet demand, if tourists do not book in advance before arriving, they will not be able to find a suitable room. Regarding the environmental issue, there are many tourist activities in the summer, some tourists still lack awareness of environmental protection, do not fully understand the value of resources and ecology of the sea and islands, so they are not really aware of the place they are visiting. Below, the author offers some more specific solutions to develop ecotourism in Co To in a sustainable way.

3.2.1. Protection of ecotourism resources and tourism environment

Co To Island has the advantage of being a relatively pristine eco-tourism area with almost no human impact on the environment and natural landscape, so it is necessary to come up with reasonable solutions to maintain a clean environment while exploiting tourism, ensuring the principles of eco-tourism. However, this is a relatively sensitive environment and is easily damaged if exploited without protection measures, so the requirement is to have specific plans to preserve natural tourism resources, ecological environment and human tourism resources.

To be able to carry out the task of protecting the environment in tourist areas in the general strategy of the whole province, one of the important solutions is

must improve the organization and management mechanism. Improve the management apparatus for tourism in general and the tourism environment in particular. Link the model of innovative management organization with the requirement of ensuring efficiency, synchronization, ensuring close coordination in the common task of protecting the ecotourism environment.

The project management board must determine the capacity of the tourist area, ensuring compliance with capacity requirements so as not to destroy the landscape and not put pressure on the environment. At the tourist area, slogans and regulations of the area on environmental protection must be established so that visitors clearly understand the principles of the tourist area and implement them voluntarily.

Build a waste collection system at tourist sites and at sea. Regulate the collection of waste at sea and fishing boats in ports and tourist boats. Tourist transport boats are required to have trash bins on board, a system to contain and treat domestic wastewater to completely limit pollution caused by tourism activities. Funds are taken from the revenue from passenger boat tickets when visiting. Limit the littering of tourists, especially non-degradable waste such as plastic bags, glass bottles, cans, etc. It is necessary to increase the placement of trash bins along the way combined with reminders and awareness of island residents, at the same time, it is good to promote environmental sanitation education.

Impose fines if visitors do not comply with the resort's environmental protection rules such as littering on boats, beaches, national parks and tourist attractions. Defecating in the wrong place has a negative impact on the ecosystem.

Establish an environmental sanitation team to collect waste, clean the water environment, collect and transport waste to another place for treatment every day.

Propagating and educating to raise awareness of environmental protection for local communities, making them see the importance and significance of environmental protection for life and for tourism, creating conditions for people to participate in tourism activities, improving their lives so that they can see the benefits of tourism development. From there, they have the awareness of doing tourism and have awareness of the environment.

School. Train them in communication skills with guests so that they can promote environmental protection and ecological landscapes to tourists.

Planning work also needs to be focused on to ensure that construction projects serving tourism will not destroy the pristine landscape of Co To.

3.2.2. Solutions to attract local communities to participate in ecotourism activities

Co To district has the conditions to develop ecotourism because compared to other tourist areas, Co To island district is still quite wild and attractive to tourists, but only endowed resources are not enough, it needs the coordination of activities of the local community to be able to develop well the type of ecotourism. Therefore, the authorities of Quang Ninh province need to have specific strategies to attract the community to do tourism, exploiting the available potential that nature has bestowed.

The local community plays an extremely important role in the development of local tourism. Without the participation of the local community, tourism activities will be difficult to take place. Especially for ecotourism, the participation of the local community is a decisive factor in the development and effectiveness of this type of tourism. Therefore, to improve and develop tourism types in Co To Island, there must be policies to attract the participation of the local community.

The local community on Co To archipelago is mainly manual laborers, living by exploiting seafood and fishing at sea. When tourism is exploited, they start doing tourism. In order for tourism to become their main profession, local authorities must have initial support policies for them. Train them in basic knowledge of tourism with the simplest knowledge so that they can absorb and apply it to their work. Create conditions for them to participate in tourism activities. For honest and simple people, they should only be trained to become people who can do tourism through a deep understanding of the place where they live. They can

perform their role as hosts welcoming guests, making visitors feel closer and understand better the uniqueness of the landscape of the sea and islands.

Local communities participate in tourism but initially they do not have good means of exploitation, at this time the local government needs to have policies to support means and loans to help them invest in tourism exploitation. Support funding so that people have capital to open souvenir stalls to serve tourists or other services in tourism.

Exemption of business tax for the first year for some households doing business in customer service. Support for people with preferential capital to improve their lives, have conditions to do a good job of cleaning tourist areas, not littering and affecting the ecological environment of tourist areas. When life improves, people become more civilized and when they see the benefits of tourism, they will be more aware of protecting the environment and doing better tourism. They will be conscious of protecting the eco-tourism area and contribute to propaganda to remind tourists not to affect the environment when visiting.

Ecotourism depends heavily on the community and also greatly affects their lives, so we must share with the community the benefits from tourism fee revenue to support local community development, show them the benefits of ecotourism activities, help local people learn how to manage resources, and give them the opportunity to participate in tourism management, demonstrating their ownership of sea and island tourism.

The management board and local government should provide jobs that local people can do if they participate in tourism activities. Organizing villages to produce handicrafts and souvenirs for tourists is a way to increase income for local residents. In addition, they should create opportunities for them to participate in more services such as: renting means of transport for guests, guiding abalone diving, squid fishing, catering, accommodation... to create their main source of income from tourism.

3.2.3. Solutions for training and developing tourism human resources

Human resources are the key to creating quality local tourism products. Therefore, it is necessary to develop long-term strategic human resource training activities. In fact, human resources serving tourism in Co To Island have not been properly trained and are not fully capable of meeting the requirements of tourism. Most of the tourism facilities are private, or in other words, built by local people themselves. Therefore, the equipment and products have not really met high quality standards. In addition, they are all family laborers, they have not been trained in professional tourism. This affects the quality of tourism products, as well as economic efficiency. Therefore, in order to improve the quality of tourism, it is necessary to train and improve the quality of human resources.

To improve the quality of human resources, local authorities need to pay attention to training tourism business staff on Co To Island. Because the district staff as well as the tourism management board are the ones who directly participate in the management of tourism activities and the development of tourism models in the locality. Therefore, attention should be paid to training professional qualifications as well as foreign language proficiency for the staff. It is necessary to focus on opening short-term training courses, participating in research on sustainable tourism models nationwide. At the same time, the Management Board should contact a number of tourism training institutions such as: Hai Phong Private University, Hai Phong College of Tourism and Services, Hanoi College of Tourism, Hanoi Open University, Hanoi University of Culture ... to coordinate in opening training courses, professional development for the staff.

In addition, it is necessary to pay attention to improving the educational level of the local community about ecotourism, because they are the ones who directly participate in tourism activities. Co To Island is far from the mainland, so the level of the people is still low compared to the general level in other tourist destinations. Because of the low level of professional expertise, they have not really met the needs of the people.

tourists. Therefore, Quang Ninh province as well as Co To district need to open vocational training courses for households directly involved in tourism. The main form is to open short-term training courses, combined with vocational training centers to improve skills to serve local people. In addition, it is necessary to regularly have plans to check the service quality of households, to provide lessons learned, as well as continue to improve professional skills in serving tourists.

In addition, we should focus on activities to raise community awareness of the value of tourism resources, the purpose and role of tourism. This will help the local community better understand the importance and benefits of tourism jobs in the locality. In addition, the locality should also have a plan to train local people to become tour guides, directly guiding guests on the island. Local authorities can send them to attend tourism training courses to improve their knowledge and understanding of tour guiding, as well as to cultivate and improve their foreign language skills. From there, they can return to their locality and become professional tour guides.

Encourage households to learn from each other, new households should refer to the experiences of households with experience in serving tourists. It is possible to organize meetings between households in the District and City to exchange lessons learned in providing tourism products. At the same time, it is necessary to educate and improve the intellectual level and behavior of local people towards tourists in order to develop ecotourism.

3.2.4. Solutions for developing ecotourism products

In order for the tourist area to develop and become a destination for tourists as well as affirm its brand in the tourism sector, the tourist area needs to set development goals in addition to the general goal of developing sustainable tourism. Co To district needs to regularly research and take advantage of its strengths to create new, unique products that are attractive to tourists and have the characteristics of sea tourism. If it does not innovate its products,

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