Competitiveness and Value Creation of Tourism Sector: In the Case of 10 ASEAN Economies
The ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) is the goal
of regional economic integration by 2015. In the region, tourism is an
activity that is important, especially as a source of foreign currency, a
source of employment creation and a source of income bringing to the
region. Given the complexity of the issues entailing the concept of
sustainable tourism, this paper tries to assess tourism sustainability
with the ASEAN, based on a number of quantitative indicators for all
the ten economies, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia,
Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Cambodia, and Brunei. The
methodological framework will provide a number of benchmarks of
tourism activities in these countries. They include identification of the
dimensions; for example, economic, socio-ecologic, infrastructure
and indicators, method of scaling, chart representation and evaluation
on Asian countries. This specification shows that a similar level of
tourism activity might introduce different implementation in the
tourism activity and might have different consequences for the socioecological
environment and sustainability. The heterogeneity of
developing countries exposed briefly here would be useful to detect
and prepare for coping with the main problems of each country in
their tourism activities, as well as competitiveness and value creation
of tourism for ASEAN economic community, and will compare with
other parts of the world.
[1] Dwyer, L., Forsyth, P., Rao, P., The Price Competitiveness of Travel
and Tourism: A comparison of 19 Destinations. Tourism Management,
21, 9-22, 2000.
[2] Miller, G., The Development of Indicators for Sustainable Tourism:
Results of a Delphi Survey of Tourism Researches. Tourism
Management, 22, 351-362, 2001.
[3] Dwyer, L., Forsyth, Spurr, R., Evaluating Tourism’s Economic Effects:
New and Old Approaches. Tourism Management, 25, 307-317, 2004.
[4] Liu, Z.H., Sustainable Tourism Development: A Critique. Journal of
Sustainable Tourism, 11(6), 459-475, 2003.
[5] Ko, T.G., Development of a Tourism Sustainability Assessment
Procedure: A Conceptual Approach. Tourism Management, 26(3), 431-
445, 2005.
[6] United Nations Environment Programme – World Tourist Organization,
Making Tourism More Sustainable: A Guide for Policy Makers, New
York, NY, 2005.
[7] Cernat, L. and Gourdon, J., Is The Concept of Sustainable Tourism
Sustainable? Developing the Sustainable Tourism Benchmarking Tool,
MPRA Paper No. 4178, posted 20 July, 2007.
[8] Calculations from the raw data from each countries by each category, as
of 2012 data.
[9] Calculations from the raw data from each countries by each category, as
of 2012 data.
[1] Dwyer, L., Forsyth, P., Rao, P., The Price Competitiveness of Travel
and Tourism: A comparison of 19 Destinations. Tourism Management,
21, 9-22, 2000.
[2] Miller, G., The Development of Indicators for Sustainable Tourism:
Results of a Delphi Survey of Tourism Researches. Tourism
Management, 22, 351-362, 2001.
[3] Dwyer, L., Forsyth, Spurr, R., Evaluating Tourism’s Economic Effects:
New and Old Approaches. Tourism Management, 25, 307-317, 2004.
[4] Liu, Z.H., Sustainable Tourism Development: A Critique. Journal of
Sustainable Tourism, 11(6), 459-475, 2003.
[5] Ko, T.G., Development of a Tourism Sustainability Assessment
Procedure: A Conceptual Approach. Tourism Management, 26(3), 431-
445, 2005.
[6] United Nations Environment Programme – World Tourist Organization,
Making Tourism More Sustainable: A Guide for Policy Makers, New
York, NY, 2005.
[7] Cernat, L. and Gourdon, J., Is The Concept of Sustainable Tourism
Sustainable? Developing the Sustainable Tourism Benchmarking Tool,
MPRA Paper No. 4178, posted 20 July, 2007.
[8] Calculations from the raw data from each countries by each category, as
of 2012 data.
[9] Calculations from the raw data from each countries by each category, as
of 2012 data.
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of regional economic integration by 2015. In the region, tourism is an
activity that is important, especially as a source of foreign currency, a
source of employment creation and a source of income bringing to the
region. Given the complexity of the issues entailing the concept of
sustainable tourism, this paper tries to assess tourism sustainability
with the ASEAN, based on a number of quantitative indicators for all
the ten economies, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia,
Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Cambodia, and Brunei. The
methodological framework will provide a number of benchmarks of
tourism activities in these countries. They include identification of the
dimensions; for example, economic, socio-ecologic, infrastructure
and indicators, method of scaling, chart representation and evaluation
on Asian countries. This specification shows that a similar level of
tourism activity might introduce different implementation in the
tourism activity and might have different consequences for the socioecological
environment and sustainability. The heterogeneity of
developing countries exposed briefly here would be useful to detect
and prepare for coping with the main problems of each country in
their tourism activities, as well as competitiveness and value creation
of tourism for ASEAN economic community, and will compare with
other parts of the world.", keywords = "AEC, ASEAN, sustainable, tourism,
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