Press conference to announce the organization of the Forum "Vietnam Tourism Human Resources 2019"

Accordingly, the first Forum with the theme "Training human resources for Vietnam tourism to develop the key economic sector" will officially take place at 9:00 a.m. on April 12, 2019 at Thong Nhat Hall, 135 Nam Ky Khoi Nghia, District 1. This is the first time Ho Chi Minh City as well as the Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Festival has organized this Forum.

In order to provide a new and more specific direction to maintain and develop the quality of human resources for tourism in Vietnam in general and Ho Chi Minh City in particular in the future to promote tourism development, attract a large number of tourists to the city, increase the length of stay and spending level of tourists in the city, the Forum will be held every 2 years.

The Forum is expected to attract more than 300 delegates, including Central Leaders, relevant Ministries, Departments, Branches, Departments of Tourism and Departments of Culture, Sports and Tourism of provinces and cities nationwide; leading experts from state management agencies, enterprises and tourism training institutions at home and abroad; state and private enterprises operating in the tourism sector and press and media reporters. Within the framework of the Forum, Central Leaders will give instructions on viewpoints and orientations for training high-quality tourism human resources, contributing to developing tourism into a spearhead economic sector of Vietnam.

The Forum is also an opportunity for state management agencies, businesses and tourism training institutions to meet, exchange and find solutions to improve the quality of human resource training for Vietnam Tourism; objectively, comprehensively and scientifically assess the current human resource for Vietnam Tourism; analyze the current situation and demand for training high-quality human resources; at the same time, refer to the experience of domestic and foreign tourism training institutions; from there, make recommendations to Ministries, Departments, Branches and Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee on human resources and innovation in human resource training for the Tourism industry.

Vietnam's tourism human resources have made remarkable progress in terms of quantity as well as structure, the quality of tourism human resources has gradually been improved, better meeting the practical requirements of the industry. Currently, the whole country has 346 tourism training establishments at all levels from primary to university, Ho Chi Minh City alone has 63 tourism training establishments (24 universities, 20 colleges and 19 intermediate schools). However, there are still some shortcomings in the organization, training and development of human resources such as the training scale has increased sharply but still does not meet the actual needs; the curriculum system is not really suitable; the quality of the teaching staff does not fully meet the practical requirements; the connection between schools and businesses and between the subjects is not really tight and synchronous; the policies and legal corridors for tourism human resource training organizations have not been innovated and have not created favorable conditions for training high-quality human resources for the tourism industry.

Topics of discussion at the Forum "Vietnam Tourism Human Resources 2019":

Morning plenary session:

- Topic 1: Current situation and perspectives on innovation in training human resources for Vietnam Tourism

- Topic 2: Policy planning in human resource development for tourism

Afternoon plenary discussion:

- Topic 1: Training to meet the needs of businesses in tourism human resources

- Topic 2: Effective application of new technology in training human resources in the tourism industry

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