Introducing our talented Viet Nam team leader: Ms Ngoc Ahn

With her highly valuable expertise in tourism, Tran Nu Ngoc Anh has taken on a leadership role in the PATA / Capilano University CBT project. Ms. Ngoc Anh has significant experience working in the Sa Pa region of Viet Nam as the project coordinator for a previous CBT project from 2002-2008 (a Capilano U and Hanoi Open University (HOU) initiative funded by the Canadian International Development Agency), and in 2008 was awarded the Leadership Certificate for Outstanding Performance by the Association of Canadian Community Colleges (ACCC) and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). She has authored and published two training manuals for hospitality training at HOU and in 2009 was granted a scholarship from the Ministry of Education to pursue a PHD in the United States. She has traveled and worked extensively in Asia including Korea, China, Malaysia, Singapore, Japan, Thailand and Indonesia and continues to expand her experiences exponentially.

In the new year, Ms. Ngoc Ahn was promoted to Vice Dean of Tourism at Hanoi Open University. She holds numerous memberships to professional bodies such as the Viet Nam Community Based Tourism Network, Viet Nam Hostelling International and the British Council in Viet Nam. Ms. Ngoc Ahn holds a Bachelor of Administration in Hospitality from HOU, a Bachelor of English from Vietnam’s National Foreign Language University, and an MBA from the Hanoi National Economic University.