6.1. Issues for the Southeast Asia’s tourism industry
The issues related to the development of Southeast Asia’s tourism industry are discussed in the following
section. First, there is a need to prepare a framework demonstrating the relative performance, role, and
that extent that private local and foreign tourism enterprises are organized in formulating developmental
aspects of tourism management decisions in the region. Particularly, the decisions that are crucial for the
benefit of tourism industry are in the decision of operation, investment, management and marketing of
tourism products. The vital issue, here, is that all concerned stakeholders of tourism industry need to
understand the undertaken development decisions which should bring greater economic consequences to
Southeast Asia. Therefore, it carries significance to stress that tourism stakeholders need to infer the
implications resulting from their actions by taking into consideration the overall interest of tourism sector
that must grow with long-run economic sustainability