Great roundtable and MQL Sustainable Tourism Services presentation at RMIT

An interesting event on tourism and hospitality had been presented at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) last Tuesday 1st November.

The roundtable brought a wide spectrum of tourism professionals from different sectors, hospitality leaders, sustainability experts, airlines managers, food & beverage developers among many educational lecturers and basically interested students.



Dr Nuno Ribeiro (RMIT) and researcher Hien Duong (Vietnam National University)


Great research and presentations were shown by Hien Duong (Faculty Social Sciences at Vietnam National University), by Thuy Pham (Hue University) and Yun (RMIT) in parallel talks at both seminar rooms, difficult to choose which one to attend as all topics were up to our days.



Round table include General Manager of Sofitel Plaza, Soline Le from Dental Tourism Department, Ken Atkinson from Vietnam Tourism Advisory Board & Grant Thornton Vietnam, Craig Douglas from The Grand Ho Tram and Dr Yun from RMIT University, together with MQL Sustainable Tourism Services Founder added great value to the panel and attendance.

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