Cuong Hanu

Background

About Cuong Hanu

over the past 26 years, mr. cuong (master in tourism management, mba, dba candidate) has established a strong reputation as a tourism professional in vietnam. his full-time jobs include: 1) tourism researcher for vietnam national administration of tourism. 2) inbound travel business manager of hanoi redtours travel company. 3) senior tourism adviser of the netherlands development organization snv. 4) principal lecturer cum deputy dean of faculty of management and tourism, head of tourism department of hanoi university (current job). his major areas of expertise are: tourism planning and policy, sustainable tourism, travel business operation and management, tourism entrepreneurship. beside the full-time job, he is an active member of some professional organizations such as: 1) vietnam tourism certification board (certified trainer), 2) asian ecotourism network (board of directors), 3) travelife sustainable tourism (certified auditor), 4) executive hospitality program of swiss state secretariat for economic affairs (certified tourism lecturer), 5) mc krems university (academic manager for vietnam) or university of palermo (visiting professor), vietnam academy of responsible tourism (founder, vice chairman). he has been intensively providing tourism professional consultancy and training services for vietnam government authorities and tourism business associations and various international organizations such as un, eu, adb, jica, unesco, lux-dev, afd, snv, iucn, wwf, helvetas, pata, aen, to name a few. he is the first author of several publications for example the annual white book on green growth in quang ninh province (year 2018 and year 2019), a book chapter “locality and culinary preferences of international tourists” in the heritage tourism research project, kyoto university of foreign studies (isbn: 978-4-89467-372-4), a book chapter “planning for the future: tourism options for an open pit coal mine at ha long bay, vietnam”, routledge advances in tourism series (isbn 13: 978-0-415-56090-0) or a journal article “bai tu long bay – a perfect destination for ecotourism”, vietnam tourism review (isbn: 0866-7373). his newest publication (dec 2022) is a book chapter wild tea and indigenous tourism - a case from vietnam. in jolliffee, l. et al,(eds.), routledge handbook of tea tourism (1st ed, p.39 - 47). routledge.