Viet Nam Tourism Startup 2025 launched

As an important event to mark the opening of a series of SHi-organized startup support activities, VTS 2025 served as a platform to connect startups, investors, experts, and organizations in the startup ecosystem, thereby building a sustainable innovation community, promoting business connections and increasing long-term value.

The programme featured in-depth consulting and training courses, and supporting activities such as professional support, talk shows, startup competitions, and providing part of the cost for human resources. All aimed at helping startups improve their innovative startup thinking, perfect their operating models, commercialize their products, enter the market and foster sustainable development.

The top five outstanding projects involving the fields of technology, tourism, cuisine, education, and trade received financial support of VND 30 million VND each to perfect and achieve significant growth and development.

The projects were “Smoke Bread” - a brand of Vietnamese bread, “VaLunTun” - a social networking application designed to connect people everywhere, “Nhat Phong” - a line of herbal massage essential oils and natural herbal products, “Echobag” - environmentally friendly mesh bags made from recycled plastic waste, and “Athena Chess Center” - a chess programme aimed at children.

VTS has been held annually since 2017 with the support of PUM organization - Netherlands, Swiss Entrepreneurship Programme - Swiss EP and key experts of SHi.

The programme has organized three TOT source lecturer training courses in Da Nang and Ho Chi Minh City with more than 48 lecturers and experts, creating a solid resource for SHi's VTS startup acceleration programmes.

After 8 years, the VTS programme has conducted 6 incubation courses and 9 acceleration ones. SHi has incubated more than 71 projects, of which 34 projects participated in the acceleration programme, and most of them are in the fields of tourism, cuisine and services, and medicinal trade.