APPROACHING VIETNAM TOURISM VALUE CHAIN FROM ANALYSIS OF TRAVEL EXPENSE

Abstract

Tourism value chain is an open research field and is identified as one of the strategic solutions for tourism development in Vietnam. The study of tourism value chain has many approaches and methods which are diverse in theory, and also has high applicability in practice. This article employed the tourist spending approach and analysis method with data during 2011 – 2019, and was updated to 2022, in order to initially determine the status of Vietnam’s tourism value chain in recent years and to comment on the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on Vietnam’s tourism value chain, thereby, highlighting some implications for the development of Vietnam’s tourism in the near future from the tourism value chain perspective