| 英文摘要 |
Vietnam sits at a key geographical position at the crossroads between East Asia and Southeast Asia and has quickly become one of the top destinations for global investment and manufacturing developments. Effectively promoting Vietnam’s lifestyle and culture, allowing foreigners to understand the country, has become a pressing issue for both the Vietnamese government and companies planning to enter the Vietnamese market. Promoting Vietnam’s cultural tourism effectively is of significant importance to both the country’s economic development and its relationships with other nations. This study adopts a quantitative research method. Firstly, select aspects of Vietnamese lifestyle and culture and then evaluate the communication effectiveness of various design styles of visual communication and of integrated marketing communication (IMC) platforms. To collect the opinions of East Asian youth, a 41-item questionnaire was distributed across the four Asian Tigers and 466 valid samples collected. The survey was translated into four languages using the back-translation method to ensure accuracy. The results indicate that Japanese youth show the greatest preference for integrated marketing communications content and web design promoting Vietnam’s lifestyle and culture. They are also the most frequent users of diverse IMC platforms and exhibit the highest communication effectiveness, making Japan a highly potential market. Notably, influencer endorsements on emerging media and in-depth reports from travel and food programs are the most effective methods. Moreover, visual communication stressed on experiencing Vietnamese lifestyle and culture, has the potential to attract more Asian youth who have not yet visited Vietnam. Further discussions and suggestions are followed. |