The competition promotes creativity and enhances the participants' practical skills and knowledge in tackling real-world problems within the Vietnamese tourism industry. Specifically, this year, RMIT aims to focus on tourism's ability to stay resilient with innovation to create sustainable tourism for Vietnam. 

AVSC 2022 is here!

RMIT’s Tourism and Hospitality Management Programme ensures inclusive and quality education for all while promoting lifelong learning. The birth of AVSC proves that. To increase the quality of tourism and hospitality education, RMIT's AVSC will serve as a platform to create awareness and encourage high school students on the importance of the tourism industry to the Vietnamese economy. World tourism leaders have built resilience and incorporated innovation to create a sustainable future. Through the competition, AVSC seeks to encourage Vietnamese high-students to uncover Vietnam's treasures and, simultaneously, to share their experiences with visitors.   

REGISTER HERE

Criteria

Each team must submit 01 proposal (report) and 01 video with creative solutions/ideas to build tourism by embracing innovation for sustainable development in Vietnam. Any application of AVSC that can solve a real-world problem is welcomed. 

Theme

Innovation in tourism refers to the creation of something new or to a change that can be made to an existing product or idea. Areas that can be considered:
Attractions - amusement parks, museums, architecture, theatres, shopping centres.
Accessibility - transport infrastructure, public transit services, and measures for people with mobility limitations and disabilities.
Amenities - accommodation, gastronomy, and leisure pursuits.
Available packages - service bundles by intermediaries to increase awareness of a destination's uniqueness.
Activities - all activities which attract tourists to the destination. 

Sustainable Tourism Development through Innovation

Open to all high school students in Grade 11 and 12 in Vietnam participating in teams (minimum of two and maximum of three members per team).

WHO CAN ENTER? 

CONDITIONS OF ENTRY 

JUDGES

Mr Colin McCandless is a seasoned hotelier with particular strengths in pre-opening and commercial focus and brings over 16 years of experience in hotel management across Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Vietnam. 

Mr
Colin Mclandless

General Manager,
InterContinental Saigon
Area General Manager,
IHG Vietnam and Laos 

Mr Minh Anh is the founder of Terraverde, a travel and event company with offices in Vietnam, Cambodia and Myanmar.  He has also been appointed as Honorary Consul of Mexico in Ho Chi Minh City since December 2017. 

Mr
Vu Minh Anh 

Founder & Managing Director
Terraverde Travel 

Mr Miquel Angel is a tourism expert working and living in Vietnam since 1999; he worked in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Catalonia before arriving in Vietnam. He is also the Head of the Human Resources & Quality Working Group at the Vietnam Tourism Advisory Board for the last five years, advising and supporting the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism. 

Mr
Miquel Angel Perez Martorell 

Founder & Managing Partner
MQL Sustainable & Tourism Services Ltd. 

Dr Jackie Ong is an experienced Tourism Consultant with more than twenty years of experience in higher education, research, business and public sector consulting works relating to the tourism and hospitality industry. 

Dr
Jackie Ong 

Senior Program Manager
Tourism & Hospitality Management
RMIT Vietnam 

MENTORS

Ms
Linh Le Dang Thuy 

Associate Lecturer,
Tourism & Hospitality Management
RMIT Vietnam 

Ms
Thanh Le Nguyen Ngoc

Associate Lecturer,
Tourism & Hospitality Management
RMIT Vietnam 

Dr
Daisy Kanagasapapathy 

Lecturer,
Tourism & Hospitality Management
RMIT Vietnam 

PRIZES

01 First Prize:
Prizes worth around VND 30,000,000 per team with 3 team members

01 Second Prize:
Prizes worth around VND 12,000,000 per team with 3 team members

01 Third Prize:
Prizes worth around VND 7,500,000 per team with 3 team members

01 People's Choice Prize (01 teams receiving most online votes):
Prizes worth around VND 3,000,000 per team with 3 team members

02 Encouragement Awards:
Prizes worth around VND 3,000,000 per team with 3 team members  

For participating teams 
Fascinating prizes with total value up to 90 million VND including:

1st Prize worth 15,000,000VND

2nd Prize worth 10,000,000VND

3rd Prize worth 5,000,000VND 

For participating
high schools 
Prize for the high school with student team winning awards:
Note: Prizes cannot be exchanged for monetary value or other items. 

TIMELINE

Workshop & Preliminary:
Teams register and submit the business proposal/white paper (report) in PDF format together with a no more than 2-minute video (all in English) to showcase the project to AVSC@rmit.edu.vn before 23:59 on 23rd October 2022. Registered teams can participate in online workshop and Q&A sessions with judges & lecturers from RMIT.

Finalist Announcement:
The chosen videos will be published on the fan page AVSC 2022 where audiences can vote for the People's Choice Prize.

Top 05 teams will be chosen for the Final round. Finalists will be offered a training workshop and one-on-one mentoring with industry experts to improve your project. 

Training & Final Round:
Final project presentation. The five teams will present their projects to our judges, and the best team will be the winner of RMIT Amazing Vietnam Student Competition 2022.  

11 September 2022

Kick-off and Open for Registration  

18 September 2022

Opening Ceremony 

25 September 2022

Training Workshop for registered teams 

23 October 2022

Registration and Submission Deadline   

1 November 2022

Finalist Announcement

6 November 2022

Training Workshop for the Finalists 

20 November 2022

Final round

ROUNDS

JUDGING
CRITERIA

Submissions will be judged on:

Judging Panels

01

The chosen videos will be published on the  fan page AVSC 2022, and the audience can vote by leaving their interactions (like, share, comment, etc.).
The People's Choice Prize winner will be announced based on the most interactions on our page.

Online votes 

02

• Problem-solving approach
• Creativity
• Feasibility of the concept
• Teamwork
• Overall presentation
• Effectiveness in conveying distinctive Vietnamese flavour 

RULES AND REGULATIONS

DOWNLOAD

Download the AVSC 2022 Booklet and the AVSC 2022 FAQs:

CONTACT

(84-24) 3724 5923 (Hanoi) 

(84-28) 3776 1418 (HCMC);

AVSC@rmit.edu.vn  

AVSC 2022

AVSC 2022