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The tourism sector is focusing on developing high-quality human resources in order to become a spearhead economy.

Many provisions in the 2005 Law on Tourism are outdated and impractical in the context of global integration and needed to be revised, tourism experts have said.

Outcomes of occupational skill evaluation programmes under the 2013 Vietnam Tourism Occupational Standards were reported at a workshop in Hanoi on April 7.

Vietnam has many strong points to help its tourism industry grow and compete with other countries in the region, said tourism expert Pham Truong Hoang from the National University of Economics.