1. Golf courses in Vietnam
By Takeyuki Koike

2. Introduction
 Nowadays golf is the best sport to attract tourists
 Tour companies started to include golf tour in their plan (Swing)
 Vietnam started the golf project (Hoang)
- 144 courses by 2020
 Economical benefit, but environmentally and socially
unsustainable

3. My point of view
 The Vietnamese government should ban the golf course
project.
- Environmental problem
- Social problem
- Negative influence from mass of tourism

4. Counter 1: Improve environment
 Few cases
 Some golf courses in undeveloped area (First)
 Good golf course condition
 One of the golf courses got the international
environmental award (First)

5. Argument 1: Destroying Environment
 A lot of area – golf courses and hotels or other resorts
 Cutting trees – increase CO2
⇒global warming (Thanhnien)
 Too many chemicals - keep the grass green
⇒Water pollution (Thanhnien)
 Not good water clean process – poor people drink that water

6. Counter 2 : Economic Benefit
 Number of tourists increasing in previous years
 Vietnam can host golf tournament (Thai Airways)
⇒attracts many people.
 Tourists bring a lot of money into Vietnam (PM)
 Not only golf courses, other resorts also gets money

7. Argument 2 : Social Problem
 Most of Vietnamese - farmers
 Golf courses are built in rural areas, not urban areas
 Loss of land which sustains the farmer’s life style
 Poor people have to move because of golf course
construction (Thanhnien)
 Farmers are not well educated – difficult to get new
jobs (Thanhnien)

8. Argument 3 : Tourism Problem
 Garbage disposal problem (Thailand)
- Increasing tourists = increasing garbage
 Water shortage (Thailand)
- Too many tourists uses a lot of water
 Inflation for the local population (Thailand)
- Merchants set the price higher to get more money
from tourists

9. Conclusion & Solution
 Although golf courses bring money into Vietnam, golf
project should be banned because of environmental
and social problems caused by golf course
construction
 No solution from the government
 If the government stop the project, Vietnam can use
project’s money to other way of develop the country
such as reforming education
- close rich - poor divide

10. Works Cited
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 Hoang. "Planning for Golf Courses Project Needed." Vietnam Investment news,
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course-projects/>.
 "PM urges greater efforts to meet GDP target." Vietnam News Agency, The 1 Sep.
2009,: NewsBank. Web. 27 Nov. 2009. ＜http://iw.newsbank.com＞
 “Thai Airways Organizes Golf Tournament in Vietnam." Vietnam News Briefs
(Vietnam) 1 Aug. 2005,: NewsBank. Web. 26 Nov. 2009.
＜http://infoweb.newsbank.com＞
 Thailand for Sale. Dir. David Jacobs. New Zealand Connected Media, 2007. DVD.
 Thanhnien News. "Regulate haphazard golf course development: conference." UNI-
BROS., Project Services in Vietnam. 07 May 2009. Web. 02 Dec. 2009.
<http://www.uni-bros.com/en/news.php?cid=4&id=11836>.
 "Swinging Golf Tours." Saigon Times Magazine (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) 14
Sep. 2006,: NewsBank. Web. 9 Dec. 2009. ＜http://iw.newsbank.com＞