Xác định sức chứa du lịch phục vụ quy hoạch phát triển du lịch bền vững huyện miền núi cao Sa Pa

Abstract

Tourism capacity is the ability of a tourist site to satisfy the tourism demand at an acceptable level of damage of its resources. This points out that there exists a concrete limit, if exceeded the environment will be badly influenced. Thus defining an appropriate number of tourists based on the natural capacity is really necessary, especially in the mountainous regions where the ecosystem is very diverse but sensible. Therefore, it needs to determine the capacity in the ecotourism planning in Sa Pa District. By this way, the sustainable viewpoint is submitted to thorough theoretical and practical analysis. This approach using PCC, RCC and ECC indexes is applied to examine the tourism capacity of tourism tracks in Sa Pa District including: (1) Sa Pa - Cat Cat - Sin Chai - Sa Pa; (2) Sa Pa - Cat Cat - Y Lin Ho - Lao Chai - Ta Van - Sa Pa; (3) Sa Pa - Lao Chai - Ta Van - Ban Ho - Thanh Phu - Nam Sai - Sa Pa; (4) Sa Pa - Lao Chai - Ta Van - Su Pan - Thanh Kim - Sa Pa; (5) Sa Pa - Sa Pa - Ta Phin - Ban Khoang - Giang Ta Chai - Sa Pa; (6) Fanxipang. The results show that four tracks have been exceeded over the standard of tourism capacity (track 2 over 12.25 times, track 3-15.35 times, track 4-2.8 times and track 5-4.28 times), the potential of two tracks haven’t been exploited (track 1 and 6). Results of this study play an important role in economic development and environmental protection strategy in Sa Pa mountainous region.