Civil Engineering and Architecture Vol. 13(6), pp. 4570 - 4588
DOI: 10.13189/cea.2025.130632
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Improving Thai Ethnic Residential Spaces to Develop Sustainable Community-Based Tourism: A Case Study of the Northwest Region of Vietnam

Thi Nguyen Dinh ^1,*, Bao Tran Quoc ¹, Dung Tran Quang ¹, Mai Quang Khai ^2
1 Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Hanoi University of Civil Engineering, Ha Noi, Vietnam
² Dongyang Structural Engineers Group, Seoul, South Korea

ABSTRACT

In the Northwest region of Vietnam, the development of community tourism is currently negatively affecting the housing space of the Thai ethnic group as well as the preservation of traditional indigenous cultural and architectural values because people are renovating and expanding their housing space to provide services and accommodation for tourists. Balancing the preservation of traditional cultural and architectural values and the development of community tourism is one of the important challenges. Therefore, the study focuses on determining the value of traditional architecture, thereby proposing solutions to organize the housing space of the Thai ethnic group in the direction of using traditional architectural values to meet the needs of community tourism development. This study provides a comprehensive understanding of the spatial structure characteristics of housing at all three levels, including housing space, housing campus space and public space of the village. Primary and secondary data were collected through field survey methods such as measurement, recording, drawing and photography; the inheritance method; surveying the needs of residents and tourists using the sociological investigation method in the form of questionnaires. Data were also processed with synthesis, statistics, analysis, comparison and contrast methods.

KEYWORDS
Traditional Residential Spaces, Village Spatial Configuration, Thai Ethnic Group, Community-Based Tourism

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(a). IEEE Format:
[1] Thi Nguyen Dinh , Bao Tran Quoc , Dung Tran Quang , Mai Quang Khai , "Improving Thai Ethnic Residential Spaces to Develop Sustainable Community-Based Tourism: A Case Study of the Northwest Region of Vietnam," Civil Engineering and Architecture, Vol. 13, No. 6, pp. 4570 - 4588, 2025. DOI: 10.13189/cea.2025.130632.

(b). APA Format:
Thi Nguyen Dinh , Bao Tran Quoc , Dung Tran Quang , Mai Quang Khai (2025). Improving Thai Ethnic Residential Spaces to Develop Sustainable Community-Based Tourism: A Case Study of the Northwest Region of Vietnam. Civil Engineering and Architecture, 13(6), 4570 - 4588. DOI: 10.13189/cea.2025.130632.