Thua Thien – Hue (VNA) – A seminar washeld in the central province of Thua Thien – Hue on August 29 to discussestablishing a platform to facilitate tourism and tourism workforce viapublic-private partnership.
The event was a result of the tourism development project between Japan’s Kyotoprefecture and Thua Thien – Hue province starting from 2018. This year, theprefecture continued assisting the province in marketing activities andworkforce training.
Speaking at the event, acting Director of the provincial Tourism Department LeHuu Minh said the two localities are ancient capitals so that they sharesimilarities in culture and history, thus laying an important foundation formutual support in diverse areas, especially in tourism.
In recent years, ties between Vietnam and Japan have extended intolocality-to-locality level such as Ho Chi Minh City – Osaka, Hai Phong –Kitakyushu, Da Nang – Yokohama, and Thua Thien-Hue with Kyoto and Gifuprefectures and Takazama city.
The same day, a delegation from the Japan Foundation Centre for CulturalExchange in Vietnam introduced Japanese collaborators to Thua Thien-Hue to helpwith Japanese teaching in schools within 10 months.
Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Nguyen Dung wished thatJapanese collaborators would fulfill their assigned tasks in the locality,contributing to deepening people-to-people exchange.
Since 2014, the “Japanese collaborators” programme has gone through fivetenures, with 16 collaborators working in Thua Thien – Hue. -VNA
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