DEVELOPING COMMUNITY TOURISM IN DONG NAI CULTURAL NATURE RESERVE

Abstract

In the current period of international integration, Vietnam has many natural and cultural resources to develop tourism. Especially tourism resources used to develop types of ecotourism and community tourism. Regarding community tourism, Dong Nai is a locality very close to Ho Chi Minh City that can best develop this type of tourism. Considering the conditions for tourism development, tourism resources is one of the factors needed to be able to develop. However, sufficient conditions must be policies to attract investment and development of local governments so as to attract investors to exploit, build tourist sites to bring in revenue sources. economic development for the locality and bring a stable life for people thanks to those tourism development policies. Dong Nai Cultural Nature Reserve is one of the current conservation areas that has implemented very good forms of ecotourism and community. Not only protecting forests, protecting the ecological resources of the national forests, but also people living in the protected areas or buffer zones are also interested in making them strong forest protectors. The activities of the Nature Reserve help stabilize people's lives, keep forests and develop tourism. The experience of developing programs here can be a valuable source of information for other localities that share the same geographic and resource characteristics.