The tourism industry in Viet Nam has developed so quickly in recent years that it doesn’t have enough qualified human resources to serve such growth. Foreign tourists visit Văn Miếu Quốc Tử Giám (Temple of Literature) in Hà Nội. According to a forecast by the Việt Nam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT), by 2020, the tourism industry will need more than two million people directly providing tourism services, not including the labourers supplied to cruise tourism, the Người Lao Động (Labourer) online newspaper reported. At present, there are more than 1.3 million workers in the tourism industry nationwide, accounting for 2.5 per cent of the nation’s total labour force. Only 42 per cent of these workers are trained in tourism, 38 per cent have moved from other sectors and 20 per cent have had no official training. This means the industry lacks skilled and experienced employees and has too many unskilled workers. Each year, tourism schools meet only 60 per cent of the sector’s demand, leading to a serious shortage of tourism human resources. Nguyễn Văn Mỹ, chairman of the management board of Lửa Việt Tourism Company, agreed that the tourism sector seriously lacked trained employees, especially tour guides. Statistics from VNAT showed that in 2017, the country welcomed more than 13 million international visitors while domestic tourist arrivals stood at 73 million. However, there are only 13,000 workers who directly serve foreign tourists, he told the Thanh Niên (Young People) newspaper. “Our workers presently meet only 50 per cent… [Read full story]
At the 5th Cambodia-Laos-Myanmar-Viet Nam summit (CLMV), Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said the co-operation between the four countries has yet to reach its potential. What do you think is the major reason? At the CLMV summit meeting in Cambodia last month, the leaders of the four countries reaffirmed their close co-operation. At the 4th summit held in Ha Noi in 2008, member countries jointly sent forward a co-operation agenda in eight fields, including trade and investment, transportation, industry and energy, tourism, human resources, environmental protection. They agreed to provide preferential treatment to the integration of CMLV goods and…... [read more]
Vietnam is having trouble finding good staff for its planned nuclear power plants and their construction should be delayed by a couple of years for the sake of safety, an official has said. Dr Nguyen Quan, Minister of Science and Technology, told news website VnExpress in a Friday report that the construction of nuclear power plants depends largely on the human factor, which Vietnam is having difficulties with. As Vietnam’s education sector provides little nuclear training now, Quan said, the human resources available for the plants are not enough. Most people do not have the latest knowledge about nuclear technology,…... [read more]
A lack of suitable human resources is still the biggest hurdle holding back the development of software firms in Vietnam, says a survey. The survey, conducted by the Vietnam Software Association (Vinasa) and the US IDG’s International Data Company (IDC), pointed out other difficulties that Vietnam ’s software industry is facing including the country’s information technology (IT) infrastructure and a lack of foreign language skills. Vietnam also lacks a comprehensive national strategy for developing and building up a trademark to gain a foothold in the global software market, according to the survey which was released at a workshop on Vietnam…... [read more]
Poor skills and inadequate infrastructure have been the main causes of inaccurate weather forecasts in the last few years, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Pham Khoi Nguyen has said. He was speaking at a national conference of weather forecasters held by the ministry in Hanoi Thursday. The conference reviewed the performance of the hydrometeorology department and discussed the problems it faces. Mr. Nguyen blamed the National Hydrometeorology Forecast Center's inefficiency on the lack of hydrometeorology schools and, thus, skilled professionals, and obsolete equipment. "The center has not made the best use of its finances and its efficiency has been…... [read more]
At a televised conference about high quality human resource training in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Thien Nhan said that the state will propose solutions to promote high quality human resource training in these two cities. The state will support links between universities and enterprises and use financial power to promote human resource training and attract foreign investment in this field. Participants discussed issues relating to high quality human resource training and prioritized objectives set forth by the two cities for four key industries, including information technology, tourism, ship…... [read more]
