A beach in Phan Thiet, Binh Thuan (Photo: VNA) The COVID-19 has forced local tourism businesses tocut 50-70% of their staff in order to deal with a sharp decline in tourist arrivalsand revenue from the industry over the last two years. With many workers havingshifted to other jobs, tourism services providers in Binh Thuan are facingserious labour shortage post-pandemic when travel recovers.
Binh Thuan is suffering severe labour shortage in tourismwith more than 60% of lodging facilities understaffed, according to a survey of75 company members of the Binh Thuan Tourism Association. Only 70% of the workershave been trained professionally.
Under the new plan, the province sets to have 75% offull-time tourism workers receive professional training and 75% proficient in aforeign languages by 2025. The figures will be 85% and 80%, respectively, by2030.
Tourism firms and vocational schools in Binh Thuan are alsocooperating in providing short-term training courses for workers in an attemptto quickly fill the gap and sustainably develop the industry.
Binh Thuan welcomed 2.9 million visitors in the first sevenmonths of 2022, a surge of 67.3% against the same period last year. Tourism turnoverrose by 38.5% year-on-year to total 5.4 trillion VND (230.72 million USD)./.
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