Introduction
Vietnam has a significant potential for tourism development
with about 2000 national historic sites, 125
beaches and parks featuring precious fauna and flora.
The tourist arrivals have increased from 250,000 in
1990 to 1.4 million in 1994, and to 2.5 million in 2001.
The number of visitors is expected to grow by 30–40%
up to the year 2010. To meet the growth of inbound
foreign and local tourists, various hotels and resorts,
rated from 2-star to 5-star, have been built in recent
years with a total of about 63,500 rooms in 1999 [8].
Though the occupancy rate has not shown much
increase during 1996–1999, the number of rooms during
this period increased by about 15%.