“DNU Talented Tour Guide 2025” – An academic playground to help Tourism students practice their skills right from the classroom

On May 28, 2025, the final round of the contest “DNU Talented Tour Guide 2025” took place in an exciting and exciting atmosphere at Dai Nam University. This is one of the meaningful annual academic playgrounds organized by the Faculty of Tourism, aiming to create opportunities for students to practice professional skills, demonstrate their mettle, develop their thinking and build a professional guiding style right from when they are still in the classroom.

Associate Professor Dr. Do Anh Tai - Vice Principal affirmed: This is a meaningful academic playground to help students experience and apply the knowledge learned in the classroom to practical work.

Academic playground combined with practical career training

The competition is designed as a miniature professional practice model, where students can directly come up with ideas, develop explanatory content, demonstrate their tour guiding skills, handle situations and debate before a panel of experts.

Through the exams such as general knowledge, explanation skills, guidance skills and situation handling, students not only demonstrate specialized knowledge but also comprehensively develop soft skills such as: communication, situational reflexes, presentation, creative thinking and independent work - important factors in the modern tour guide profession.

Students confidently demonstrated their knowledge and skills at the competition.

Solid expertise, good skills – DNU students score points with prestigious business jury

The “DNU Talented Tour Guide 2025” contest received the support and evaluation from experienced experts in the tourism field, including:

• Dr. Ngo Quang Duy – Head of Tourism Faculty, Head of Jury
• Ms. Nguyen Hong Van – Head of Tour Guide Department, Saigontourist Travel Company – Hanoi
• Mr. Phung Xuan Khanh - CEO of Tien Phong Travel Company

The prestigious jury of the competition.

The judges highly appreciated the professionalism, confidence and creativity of the contestants, and were impressed with the ability to master the stage, handle situations flexibly and the attractive tour-leading style of Dai Nam University students.

Final results – Calling out the talented faces

After the preliminary round with two online competitions and live presentations, the 5 best candidates entered the final round and went through a challenging competition. The results are as follows:

• First Prize: Tran Thi Ngoc Anh - class QTDL17-03 .
• Second Prize: Le Huy Khai - class QTDL17-03 .
• Third Prize: Ly Thu Ha - class QTDL17-03 .
• Encouragement Prize: Nguyen Huy Hoang - class QTDL17-03 .
• Promising Award: Luong Thi Bich - class QTDL18-04 .

Enhancing training – Combining learning with practice, linking school with business

“DNU Talented Tour Guide 2025” – An academic playground to help Tourism students practice their skills right from the classroom.

The competition is not only a place to discover and honor future tour guides, but also an opportunity for the Faculty of Tourism to evaluate the quality of practical training, thereby perfecting the curriculum closely related to the needs of the labor market.

In particular, with the participation of prestigious tourism businesses, the competition is also an important bridge between students - schools - businesses, opening up opportunities for internships, jobs and sustainable training cooperation.

“DNU Talented Tour Guide” is not just a competition – it is a journey for students to assert themselves, accumulate practical experience and nurture their passion for the profession. With the motto “Learn to do, learn to grow”, Dai Nam University is gradually realizing the goal of training high-quality human resources, ready to integrate and develop in a professional tourism environment.