What mental preparation is needed when studying Tourism and Travel Services Management at Dai Nam University?

The article below will help you answer this question, and equip you with the necessary skills to study well right from the start of school.

1. Always be ready to practice and intern throughout the training process.

The training model of the Faculty of Tourism - Dai Nam University is oriented towards career application. In order to ensure that after graduation, students have full professional capacity (ability to apply knowledge, skills and attitudes in professional activities), and are able to respond immediately in a professional working environment, practice and internship activities at enterprises are promoted in the direction of "increasing practice and internship opportunities right from the first year". Participating in this training program, students of the Faculty of Tourism - Dai Nam University must always:

+ Seriously and aware of practice, internship at the enterprise is an opportunity to experience, apply and systematize basic knowledge about the work of an employee in a specific department in hotel and travel businesses;

+ Proactively and actively accumulate and develop communication and behavioral skills with tourists and tourism service providers, and tourism business management skills;

+ Orientation of professional style and attitude of a tourism employee.

2. The world of people who “like to move”

Traveling a lot is one of the characteristics of the “tourists” of Dai Nam University. During their studies at the Faculty of Tourism – Dai Nam University, students go to:

- Go on a field trip. Right from the first year, subjects in the curriculum such as: Overview of Tourism, Cultural Foundations, Tourism Geography... require students to go on a field trip so that "knowledge is not just in books".

- Go to practice. In the morning, study at the lecture hall, in the afternoon, go to the practice facility to act as "industry people" and practice the skills learned in the morning regardless of rain or shine;

- Internship. The Faculty of Tourism - Dai Nam University has a system of practice facilities including 3*, 4*, 5* hotels and travel companies for students to practice and intern. At the same time, the faculty conducts training cooperation with many tourism businesses to build the most professional learning environments for students. Therefore, each student of the Faculty of Tourism is always in the mindset of being both a student sitting in the university lecture hall and a part of the human resources of the Tourism industry.

“Pressure” in final exams in the form of professional competency assessment.

Exams are a huge pressure for students of the Faculty of Tourism - Dai Nam University. Based on the output standards of the course, the exams not only test and evaluate the level of understanding of the subject knowledge but also, importantly, evaluate the level of application of the knowledge learned to solve specific tasks of each job position in the tourism industry. The exams are designed to be implemented in many diverse forms. For the basic courses of the industry, the main exam forms are learning projects, essay reports combined with oral questions.

For professional subjects such as Room Service, Restaurant Service, Tour Operation Service, Tour Guide Service, etc., the main form of the exam is to assess the ability to combine the assessment of the level of understanding of the subject with the level of proficiency in professional skills of a complete working process. Students not only have to understand the theoretical system of the subject but also need to master the system of specific professional skills according to the professional standards of the Tourism industry. To pass the subject and get high scores, students must spend a lot of time "studying - practicing".

Ready to be recruited by businesses before graduating from school

This is a job opportunity for students and also a pressure for students to be well prepared in terms of knowledge - skills - attitudes for the competition for the desired job position.

The Faculty of Tourism – Dai Nam University commits to society to ensure that 100% of graduates have jobs. This commitment is not only a pressure for the teaching staff but also a pressure and motivation for the students of the Faculty of Tourism. To fulfill the above commitment, the Faculty of Tourism always focuses on the training quality of the Faculty so that each graduate has full knowledge – skills – attitudes, truly a highly qualified human resource in the tourism industry to meet the requirements of the labor market and of businesses recruiting personnel.

Are you ready to become a student of the Faculty of Tourism - Dai Nam University?

02 simple steps to become a student of Tourism and Travel Services Management at Dai Nam University

- Method 1: Consider the 2022 high school graduation exam scores. Use the results of 03 subjects from the high school graduation exam results according to the admission combination;

- Method 2: Admission based on high school transcripts. Average score of grade 12 according to the combination of 3 subjects for admission ≥ 18 points;

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