HCM City (VNA), July 10 -- Practice-based training is needed to create high-quality human resources, key to improve productivity and the competitive capacity of Vietnam's tourism sector, tourism experts have said.

Nguyen Huu Tho, Chairman of the Vietnam Association of Tourism, said Vietnam's labour productivity remains low compared with other countries.

Singapore productivity is 15 times higher than Vietnam, Japan 10 times, and Thailand 5 times, he said.

The persistence of theory-focused education and little practical application in Vietnam requires enterprises to offer workplace-based retraining programmes for their employees, he said at a conference held in HCM City on July 7.

The labour turnover rate in the tourism and hospitality ...