Stakeholder model application in tourism development in Cat Tien, Lam Dong

Although domestic and international tourism creates many researches especially in cultural and heritage tourism, the systematic and science research is less appealing on specific monuments as the potential cultural tourism in Cat Tien district, Lam Dong, Vietnam. This study focused on up-coming valuable tourism resources in Cat Tien through assessing the tourism opportunities and challenges to plan and lead the refinement of tourism expanding, therefore constructing the civilization tourism in Cat Tien with regards to stakeholders approach. The stakeholder meaning has been stated by Freeman (2010), that any group or individual who can affect or is affected by the achievement of the organizations objectives. More or less, the effectiveness of Stakeholder approach has been applied in many areas such as rural development (Simmons 1994), public management (Litvin 2005), and tourism development (Aas, Ladkin, and Fletcher 2005). Critically, no matter the area, the stakeholders must be identified carefully, every group has its own interest and duty, so the plan could not be achieved without any of them (Byrd 2007). The planning and management process should be clearly found to what extent the stakeholders involvement is there in every single stage from beginning to the end (Gunn 1994). At the result of output period, this is the very first series of paper related to local community awareness in achieving tourism sustainable progress in Cat Tien, followed by governmental roles and tourism enterprises contribution as a whole. Almost 172 of local resident surveys have been delivered and analyzed EFA data collection by quantitative method through SPSS software.