Germany 's Europe Indochina Institute of Tourism (EIT) and Sao Viet Computer and Language Training Center will jointly establish a variety of new hospitality and tourism training courses in Ho Chi Minh City, helping the local hospitality improve its professional skills.
Under the recent agreement, courses for tour guides, restaurant operators, front office agents and hotel managers will be offered. Most courses will be taught in English and will be tailored specifically to the Vietnamese industry.
Special courses on tourism and hospitality-industry English will also be provided, as well as computer training courses based on the demands of the sector.
Students, graduates and hospitality industry employees are all eligible to register for the classes. Dr. Peter Seidel from HCM City German Consulate General said increasing numbers of foreign tourists are entering Vietnam everyday, and the domestic tourism and hospitality industry must improve to meet the rising demand.
“These training courses are expected to help the domestic industry have a staff with highly professional skills, and to build a strong sense of protecting the tourism environment among tourism workers,” he said.
During the working visit to Vietnam by German President Horst Kohler from May 21, the two sides signed two agreements in the education.
Vietnam now has 234,000 direct and 550,000 indirect workers in the hospitality industry, equal to 2.5 per cent of the country’s total workforce. Of them, 42.5 per cent have been trained.
The tourism sector plans to increase its workforce to 1.4 million workers by 2010, including around 19,000 trained workers recruited annually, announced the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT). (VNA, Vietnam Panorama)
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