Upcoming Events

Ha Noi Green Walk - Sunday Sept 25th

RTC is teaming up with TSG & AFEO to do another the Green Event of the year: Hanoi Green Walk this year 2011. The event is aimed at promoting sustainable tourism in the capital city, raising community awareness of the environmental issues, promoting the World Carfree Day and connecting people within a friendly environment.

Conducted in the form of a green walking tour with all activities scheduled for the morning, participants are required to get to the starting point by environmentally friendly means of transport, walking, cycling or taking public bus. There will be two hours of pleasant walk through many selected vibrant streets of Hanoi with new friends exploring life, tasting foods, learning local architecture and traditional crafts, having fun shopping, taking photos and more. The walk finishes at a park with team presentations on assigned subjects, team building activities, music performances by participants coupled with soft drink and snacks… 
 
We believe familiar things would turn out to be fresh and amazingly interesting as you walk and we are hopeful of a day we can truly live the city life without cars and motorbikes.
 
Date: Sunday, Sep, 25th, 2011
Time: From 07h00 – 12h45
Start/finish: Children Palace/Bach Thao Park
Details: Please find the attached flyer
Other information: To be sent in the coming days
 
For registration, please send email to:
1) GreenWalk@rtcvietnam.org

Green Office training workshop, July 2011

Follow with our successful training workshop on the impacts of tourism on environment, RTC plans another environmental workshop - Green Office.

This workshop aims to get staff of member companies brainstormed about the changes they can make in the office and the changes of their everyday behaviours.

The workshop takes place in Hanoi for one day, on the 26th of July, non-members are also invitied to join. Please follow this link to see the agenda of the workshop.

Booking can be made via email: GreenOffice@rtcvietnam.org.

RTC Vietnam.

RTC workshop on Environmental Impacts of Tourism, May 2011

Vietnam’s beautiful beaches, soaring mountains, and natural attractions such as Halong Bay, attract millions of visitors each year and generate significant economic benefits for the country and its regions.  However, whilst nature-based tourism may offer significant opportunities for both employment and conservation, the sector must be managed sustainably in order to ensure that the growth does not hamper the essence of the product.

Responsible travel club of Vietnam was form in May 2010, the aim of this associations is to work together among the tour operators and other tourism stakeholders on promotion of responsible travel through travel products, environmental training and community based tourism.

Held at the end of May at Lavie Vu Linh Eco lodge, a popular ecotourism destination north of Hanoi, the RTC has convened a training workshop to examine ways in which the local tourism industry can operate sustainably in Vietnam’s fragile environment whilst at the same time work towards its protection.

Over 3 days the workshop will bring together 36 people from 13 tour operators from Hanoi and as far afield as Hue – central Vietnam and other organizations.  Workshop partners include SNV – Netherlands Development Organisation and WWF – World Wildlife Fund, with additional presentations being given by Vietnam national administration of tourism - VNAT and ENERTEAM.

Club tour opeartors: Footprint Travel, Sisters Tours, Active Travel, Indochina Travel Land, Free Wheeling tours, GSO Travel and Handspan Travel are now busy preparing for this event. Also our partners such as WWF and SNV are also putting a great efforts together with us to make sure it will be a fruitful workshop.

Other non-member tour operators will also join us, like Vietnam tourism in Hanoi, HG Travel in Hanoi, Vietran tours, Huong Giang travel Hue... we believe this workshop will be a great success.

On Day One delegates will depart Hanoi for Lake Lavie Vu Linh.  Upon arrival delegates will be taken on a boat and walking tour of the Lake and the Lavie Vu Linh ecotourism project and take some time to discuss the fragile beauty of the Lake.

During Day Two delegates get stuck into the core issues affecting tourism and the environment in Vietnam, finding solutions and presentation to all. Attending sessions such as Vietnam’s biodiversity values, tourism’s impact on the environment, Participants have expert’s talk on approaches to manage tourism environmental impacts such as the Vietnam’s environmental law and regulations, environmental policy development, and green suppliers. In addition, participants will have thoroughly discussion on how to manage tourism impacts throughout process of tour operation, tour guiding and product development.

Before departing back to Hanoi on Day 3 delegates are able to hear about WWF’s work in tourism in Vietnam and take motivation from SNV’s presentation on environmental better practice from around the world. At the end of the workshop, each participating tour operator will present its company’s action plan for managing environmental impacts in its business value chain.

The tourism environmental training workshop will be held from 27th to 29th May, 2011. You can download the agenda of the workshop here.

Some pictures of RTC workshop:

Don Taylor - tourism advisor of SNV and RTC team.

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