According to data from the World Travel and Tourism Council WTTC, the total number of Vietnamese workers currently working in the travel and tourism industry is more than 4 million people. It is forecast that this number will increase to 4.5 million people by 2029. This means that Vietnam needs an additional 545,000 workers for the tourism and travel industry within the next 10 years, equivalent to needing more than 54,500 workers each year. labor.
According to statistics from the General Department of Tourism, each year the tourism industry needs nearly 40,000 more workers, but the number of students and specialized graduates is only about 15,000 people/year. Of these, just over 12% have college or university degrees or higher. And of the country’s 1.3 million tourism workers, only 42% have been trained in tourism, 38% have transferred training from other industries and about 20% have not received formal training.
In addition, many localities and tourism businesses also said that tourism is seriously lacking human resources and expressed concerns that if they do not quickly improve, human resources will become a major bottleneck in the tourism industry during the process. upcoming development. In particular, in the post-Covid-19 context, the demand for human resources for the tourism industry will increase strongly.
Students graduating from Tourism Management at Yersin University of Dalat can take on many different positions such as: