Ms Hong Trang – Edubelife – Member in the board of examiners for the competition “Vietnam smart tourism startup 2019″

The “Vietnam Smart Tourism Startup” is the innovation startup competition for enterprises by applying information technology to develop tourism. This is the activity to implement the Supporting Project for National Innovation Startup Ecosystem by 2025 issued under Decision No.844/QĐ-TTg dated May 18, 2016 by the Prime Minister and the General Project of Applying information technology in tourism from 2018-2020, orientation to 2025 according to the Decision No.1671/QĐ-TTg dated November 30, 2018 of the Prime Minister.

The competition has been hold by Vietnam National Administration of Tourism and Songhan Incubator, coordinating with national and international associations, enterprises, universities, organizations and individuals to gather the innovative intellectual in national scale by applying the information technology to develop tourism as well as to spread the startup spirit in tourism field  following the trend of the 4th Industrial Revolution; honor and promote smart tourism start-up enterprises who have the innovative and breakthrough products with high technology application; promote the development of Vietnam Tourism Startup Ecosystem by building environment to connect, meet and discuss among factors including state, investment funds, schools, universities, enterprises, Startups, media organizations, start-up supporting organizations, experts, mentors, investors… in order to create annual “playground” to choose innovative talents with smart tourism models.

Participants in the competition include innovative startup enterprises applying information technology to develop smart tourism with innovative and breakthrough products as well as new business models. Priority has been given to the enterprises who develop smart tourism models with large socio-economic impacts on local communities in areas with difficult socio-economic conditions; who apply advanced technology with capability of connecting and cooperating resources to create the value chain of products and services with high international integration abilities.

The competition has taken place from March to June with following rounds:

Round 1 – Communication, selection and preliminary

Round 2 – Training, mentoring and semifinals:

Final round – expected in June 2019 in Hanoi; select 6 award-winning enterprises including 1 for first prize, 2 for second prizes, 3 for consolation prizes. 02 in the top 5 enterprises will be selected by Organization Board of Shark Tank program and will have the chance to mobilize investment capital as well as advertise self-products.

After selecting the winners, the Organization Board will organize activities to connect network of the startups, market, partners and investors.

On May 7, 2019, the Organization Board of the Competition sincerely invited Ms Hong Trang – CEO of EDUBELIFE as an examiner for projects in this competition.

Here are some pictures and video of Ms Hong Trang

 

 

 

11/05/2019