Thứ Tư, 19/04/2017, 22:14 (GMT+7)
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First VN tourism start-up programme begins

The central city’s Sông Han Incubator has launched the first ever tourism start-up programme.

Deputy head of the Đa Nang Entrepreneurship Support Co Ltd (DNES), Ly Đinh Quan, presented the programme at a press conference yesterday.

Organic farm produce displayed at an exhibition in Đa Nang. Many organic farms were set up following a start-up programme last year.
Organic farm produce displayed at an exhibition in Đa Nang. Many organic farms were set up following a start-up programme last year.

He said Viet Nam has a potential resource in tourism, but the sector has not yet built up its own nationwide value chain and connections among tourism enterprises as well as foreign partners and investors.

“We aim to enrol the first ten start-up businesses to join a value chain in tourism between April and November. They will themselves build up new ideas and innovations in setting up their businesses for future development, with a total fund of VNĐ80 million (US$3,500) each, and support on legal issues, information technology, marketing and trade,” Quan said. “The best consultants and experts are invited to give support and guidance as well as training,” he said.

Quan said the programme will help connect businesses operating in the fields of travel, hospitality, transport, craft villages and information technology in a value of chain.

He said this would help reduce travel cost, while improving quality and competitive capacity among tourism enterprises in Viet Nam.

The programme has also received sponsorship from the Viet Nam Mentors Initiative, I-Angel, Women’s Initiative for Start-up Enterprise and Swiss SP.

Pham Le Nhat Quang, senior investment manager of the Viet Nam Investment Group, said the group manages a fund $500,000 to support start-up businesses in Viet Nam. He said new ideas and innovation by start-up enterprises would benefit from the fund’s financial support.

Ta Anh Tuan, a senior expert from the Netherlands’ PUM company, said his company could provide consultancy for start-up businesses in Viet Nam and help connect with foreign partners.

The programme hopes that at least 50 per cent of start-up businesses succeed in the last pitching opportunity later this year, and new ideas and innovations in business tourism development will emerge.

Last year, the central city began its start-up and entrepreneurship development by offering the start-up ecosystem, policies and investment support activities.

Đa Nang has 15,000 businesses, of which 95 per cent are small and medium-sized enterprises.

(Source: VNS)
 

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