Viet Nam Tourism Startup (VTS) 2021 is the 5th year tourism and service startup accelerator program hosted by Song Han Incubator Center (SHi) to promote commercialization of innovative tourism and service products.
The program will last from July 2021 to May 2022. In particular, in the first 4 months, (from July to October 2021), there are 6 training sessions on enhancing business operation and market development. In the subsequent 6 months (from November 2021 to May 2022) it will be time for seeding funding.
The program is opened to all startups across Viet Nam, with priority given to ones based Da Nang and other localities in the Central Viet Nam, Ha Noi and Ho Chi Minh City and other tourism cities, and the event’s specific timelines will be adjusted, depending on the number of registrations.
VTS 2021 aims to help startups and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) solve problems relating to business operations, strategies, models and market development plans so that they can achieve the set goals in terms of capacity and market development, and investment attraction.
According to the organizer, candidates attending VTS 2021 will have the opportunity to be trained and consulted by a team of internationally trained lecturers, experts and reputable advisors of SHi through 6 bootcamps for 4 months and accompanied by consulting support for 6 months after acceleration.
VTS has been hosted by Songhan incubator in collaboration with partners in Viet Nam's tourism and service startup ecosystem. Over the past 4 years, the programme has successfully incubated more than 62 tourism and service startup projects.