A Study On Tourism Industry Development Of The Lao P.D.R

After human beings enter 20 th century, they have made great progress in economy, science, technology and ideology and the human society civilization ushered in the new stage, which made an enormous change in quantity and quality. People gradually realize the importance of raising the quality of people’s life in recreation. So people go outside even abroad more to experience fun in the life brought by the exotic emotional appeal. Tourism as the world’s largest industries has huge superiority and function and is unable to compare with other industry. First, the tourism industry has the relevance with other industries. Therefore, other industries can be driven by its from the industrial chain, consumer demand, drive the development of economy and provide employment opportunity. Second, the tourism industry has the environmental protection function. The characteristics of tourism are having light pollution and little energy consumption which can narrow the gap between regional economic development and improve people’s environmental protection consciousness. Third, it has the function of bearing and inheriting culture and can promote the development of culture industry. It plays an important role in improving the quality of the social civilization and is an important way to strengthen the communication between different cultures and carrier. More than 120 countries and regions in the world have made tourism the pillar industry of national economy development. In order to promote the development of tourism, we develop and perfect the relevant policy rules and set up the tourism management and research organization, the corresponding universities opened the tourist management course to increase the investment and support for tourism. Therefore, this thesis take“Study on Tourism Industry Development of the Lao P.D.R”as the main idea by using the knowledge theory of tourism and the cognition and experience summary of Laos tourism, indicate the development direction of tourism industry in Laos. Therefore, this paper has great significance and research value to the development of tourism in the surrounding countries. This thesis mainly is divided into six chapters:Chapter 1: is the background and significance of the thesis, that compared the domestic and foreign research methods and research achievements were briefly expounded including research methods and research framework. Chapter 2: it is the basic theory of related industries, including the industrial economics theory, concept and basic features of the tourism industry, tourism industrial economics theory. At the same time, this paper discusses the tourism industry cluster theory, the tourism industry of the grey system theory, the theory of “Big tourism” industry. Especially as how to establish a excellence development which can promote the development of tourism industry in Laos.Chapter 3: Studies on the industry development present situation analysis of the Lao tourism. This part describes the general situation of the tourism industry development of Laos, Laos tourism industry policies, Laos tourism market scale, the condition of where the passenger come and their behaviors related industries. Chapter 4: Uses the SWOT to analyze the tourism industry development of Laos.Chapter 5 is presenting on the periphery tourism industry experience and where draws lesson from. This thesis mainly enumerates countries such as Thailand, Vietnam and China.Chapter 6: Is to accelerate the Laos policy and suggestion on the tourism industry. This thesis introduce the systematic strategy of the tourism industry rule and recommend Laos for the development of tourism industry specific policies.Finally, the article puts forward some countermeasure to improve economic performance of Laos tourism industry according to the empirical study conclusion.