Building the indicators of sustainable tourism development: The case of Nha Trang city

Abstract

    The purpose of this study is to apply the Delphi-based approach to eliciting knowledge from multipleexperts in order to build the indicators of sustainable tourism development in Nha Trangbeach cm: Seven tourism experts were invited to participate in the two rounds of questionnairedevelopment. Tlie analysis results indicated that eight questionnaire items (indicators) wereremoved; and the remaining indicators (28 indicators) were considered to be relevant lo the sustainabledevelopment in tourism business in Nha Trang city. The study provides implications fortourism marketers and policy makers with the purpose of contributing to sustainable beach-tourismdevelopmenl.