ASEAN economic community and challenges in tourism development process

To deepen cooperation between member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) both in tourism service and other fields, the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) was established at the end of 2015. This event has a great meaning for tourism development of the ASEAN. The article identifies and analyzes the challenges, which ASEAN member countries have to resist to achieve the goals during the improvement of the hotel and tourism business system.