Faculty of Tourism - Dai Nam University: 5-year journey of bold and proud breakthrough

05 years - not a short period of time but also not long for a faculty, especially the Faculty of Tourism, a key faculty of Dai Nam University. Let me use the image of a boat on its journey from the shipyard to the time it sets sail, rides the waves and docks at the port to describe, remember and cherish the bold and proud journey of 05.

From the faith and passion of the "captain"

The Faculty of Tourism - Dai Nam University was established with the aspiration to provide high-quality human resources for the tourism industry of the school's head, Dr. Le Dac Son.

Deeply understanding the government's policies and guidelines for developing the tourism industry; desiring to build and develop a practical training model; Providing high-quality human resources for businesses operating in the tourism and travel industry, in 2014, Dr. Le Dac Son - Chairman of the Board of Directors and his colleagues built a project to open the tourism and travel industry and established the Faculty of Tourism.

On April 1, 2015, the Faculty of Tourism - Dai Nam University was established under Decision No. 283/QD-BGDDT. The Faculty of Tourism has the mission of: Training bachelors in Tourism and Travel Services Management with adequate political qualities and professional capacity in the tourism and travel industry, able to work in any position in domestic and foreign agencies, businesses, and tourism companies; able to use many foreign languages fluently and use professional capacity well in work...

Dai Nam University is the first university in the North to build a 3-star hotel as a practice facility for students.

After 5 years of construction and development, the Faculty of Tourism has become one of the strong faculties of Dai Nam University. Following the consistent direction of the Chairman of the Board of Directors along with the enthusiasm, responsibility and tireless dedication of the collective leadership, staff, lecturers and students, the Faculty of Tourism has built 05 core values as a guideline for its training activities.

Dai Nam University continues to take over and operate the 5-star Rosamia Hotel - Da Nang as a practice facility for students.

Firstly, invest in building new technical facilities with a full system of theoretical classrooms and vocational practice rooms meeting 3-star standards or higher to meet the teaching, practice and internship needs of students.

Second, the staff and lecturers of the Faculty, from permanent lecturers to guest lecturers, must have practical experience in large enterprises; have qualified pedagogical qualifications, have attended training programs according to Vietnamese tourism vocational standards (trained by domestic and foreign experts); are regularly trained to improve their professional qualifications and skills, and have passion and dedication to tourism vocational training.

In order to meet the increasing demand for study and internship of students, Dai Nam University continues to take over and operate the 4-star Hung Long hotel in Bac Ninh.

Third, the entire training program is reviewed, adjusted, and updated to best suit the needs of businesses and especially applies modern, active, " student-centered " teaching methods.

Fourth, diversify training methods to serve many student groups in society; ensure output for businesses and mobilize many resources to serve human resource training in the tourism industry.

Fifth, 100% of students after graduation meet the standards to work at domestic and foreign agencies, organizations and enterprises and are introduced to jobs by the Faculty.

Set sail, sail the waves...

With the desire to reach out and stick to core values for CHANGE, on October 5, 2017, Dr. Le Dac Son officially approved the applied training program in association with businesses. This has become an important milestone helping the Faculty of Tourism transform into a new stage of bold and proud development.

The faculty and staff are increasingly improved and developed.

On July 10, 2018, Dai Nam University opened the 3-star Lotus Legend practice hotel in Hanoi to serve as a practice facility for students of the Faculty of Tourism. Dai Nam University became the first university in the North to have its own practice hotel for students.

Following the success of the 3-star Lotus Legend practice hotel, on February 21, 2019, Dai Nam University continued to manage and operate the 5-star Rosamia hotel in Da Nang to both do tourism business and serve as a practice and internship facility for students.

In order to meet the increasing demand for study and internship of students and the increase in the number of students of the Faculty of Tourism; following the success of Lotus Legend practice hotel and Rosamia practice hotel, on July 8, 2019, Dai Nam University continued to receive and operate the 4-star Hung Long hotel in Tu Son - Bac Ninh.

Students of the Faculty of Tourism at Dai Nam University have the opportunity to intern and experience at 3-star, 4-star and 5-star hotels right from the first semester of their first year.

Not only focusing on building facilities to meet the needs of practice and experience for students, the Faculty of Tourism also pays great attention to business linkage activities. Accordingly, the Faculty has built and linked a large network of businesses to receive students for internship and work across the country, such as: Hai Phong, Quang Ninh, Hanoi, Thanh Hoa, Da Nang...

The Faculty of Tourism has also signed cooperation agreements with many foreign partners to send students to internships and paid experiences in developed countries such as Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Switzerland from the second year of study in the form of Intership.

Survey data and statistics at the beginning of the 13th course show that the majority of students enrolling in the Faculty of Tourism, Dai Nam University, do so because they recognize the faculty's strengths in tourism training associated with practice. 85% of students choose to study at the Faculty of Tourism because the school has a modern internship hotel; 98% of students choose the Faculty of Tourism because of the applied practice training program; 96% of students choose the Faculty of Tourism because of the commitment to be introduced to jobs after graduation.

Internship time accounts for 50%.

Docking…

In 2020, the first port of call for the DNU Tourism boat is K10. The evaluation and acceptance of students to work at businesses right after graduation is the sweet fruit of the 5-year journey of building and developing the Faculty of Tourism. The time anchored at the port is the time for the Faculty to look back on the past journey, calm down, refuel and continue its journey out to sea.

Students of the Faculty of Tourism, Dai Nam University are confident, dynamic and integrate with the times.

On the occasion of the 5th anniversary of the establishment and development of the Faculty of Tourism, I would like to express my gratitude to the Board of Directors and the Board of Management of the school for their close guidance and creating favorable conditions for the development of the Faculty. Thank you to the generations of cadres, lecturers and staff of the Faculty of Tourism for always being united and dedicated to the common development goals of the Faculty and the school! I would like to express my gratitude to the agencies, departments, organizations and businesses that have reported and supported the operating model of the Faculty of Tourism - Dai Nam University. Thank you to the students who have trusted and chosen to entrust their youth and future to the DNU Faculty of Tourism! And I would like to express my deep gratitude to the parents who have trusted and entrusted their children to us!

Pham Dung - Huyen Trang