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Center for Development of

Community Initiative andEnvironment

Hoa Sen University SGS Group

Our Journey is a program combines an reality game with a

knowledge contest of Sustainable Tourism hosted by Center for

Development of Initiative Community and Environment (C&E) in

association with Hoa Sen University. The program was sponsored

by SGS Sweden and SGS Vietnam and was held on Nov 24, 2012

at Hoa Sen University, Ho Chi Minh City.

Our Journey attracted many young people with the passion for tourism,

environment and the desire to act towards sustainable development.

There were more than 30 teams applying for the program. After theinterview round, the 5 most energetic, intelligent, suitable teams were

selected.

8.30 am excellent competitors gathered at Hoa Sen University, No.2 Tan

Vien Str. Five teams quickly made friend with their own supervisors who

would support and supervise them along the journey.

5 teams and 5 supervisors

Our Journey 24/11/2012 HoChiMinh City

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Right after the opening speech, the 5 teams were given secret letters

from supervisors to start the Journey.

Finding the secrets of letters to get started

Finding out the key was Hoang Van Thu Park, 5 teams quickly get there

and select their own means of transportation to travel along this

imagine journey.

Globetrotter Team including 11th grade students from Tran Dai Nghia High

school for gifted students and Chan Tam Team from Foreign TradeUniversity choose Plane to travel; they have to wear white paper angel

wings. Early morning sunshine in Sai Gon makes their shadows look like

beautiful dancing angels.


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Meanwhile, Lua Xanh Team from Ho Chi Minh University of Educationchooses Train as their transportation with lovely decorated carton train.


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The 2 other teams are Ban Tay Team from Hoa Sen university and Green

Team from Ho Chi Minh Open University choose bicycle to travel. It is

really difficult to walk around with tied legs but they seem to have lots of

fun.


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Teams in turn travel to the second station to go shopping and challenge

themselves with remembering game. At the third station, they have to

grow green trees to know more about sustainable development. The forth

stations requires members in one team to understand each other. The last


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station, the fifth one 5 teams have to find out the key to get back to Hoa

Sen University.

The knowledge contest in the afternoon begins with the performance of

The Fan band. These songs warm the room up and make everyone forget

the heavy rain outside.


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Here are the delicates and representatives from Hoa Sen University,

University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City and SGS Vietnam.


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Mr Vu Duc Thang Deputy General Director of SGS Vietnam to Mrs. Bui

Tran Phuong President of Hoa Sen University, the two organizers of the

contest.


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Beginning with the First Round, the contest brings five interesting opening

performances from five teams which reflects their teams characters

Chn Tm Team performs an amazing calligraphy


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Gangnam Style Dance from Green Team

The audiences are deeply impressed by the performances of 5 teams. From alively dancing Gangnam Style of Green Team, to the simple beauty of Green

Fire then a fun rap song performed by Ban Tay and followed by a deep

repertoire of calligraphy from Chn Tm. Especially in this round, there is a

lovely movie clip with the unique style designed by five environmental agents

from the team Globetrotter !

The Second Round is the academic contest about sustainable tourism.

Many answers are given out. Interestingly, the five teams somehow often

made their choices the same as other teams. This round is a verymeaningful one because it helps bring information and knowledge of

sustainable tourism to all participants.

At the end of the contest is the round in which the teams play many

stakeholders roles -local people and authorities, tourists, tourism agents -

to deal with issues in real-life situation related to sustainable tourism. To

the surprise of the judge board, the teams' performances are very unique

and creative. Chn Tm impresses the audience with in-depth, sharp

arguments while some of other teams choose to answer by performing a

play (like Globetrotter Team) in which the youngest girls in the programact as village leader and villagers, and the team Green models a

meeting of a tourism agency. The team Lua Xanh made a greatly

persuasive performance as a people's representative while the team Ban

Tay smoothly combined a play with creative, eloquent oratory. Not as

hard as expected, the Stakeholder Round turns out to be very energetic,

which helps to keep the audience effervescent.


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The girl from Globetrotter played as a village leader in their teamsetiquette

Through the reality game in the morning and the contest in the afternoon,

the five teams have shown their strength in different aspects. In the end,

Chn Tm excellently takes the 1st place, 2nd place is Bn Tay and the

three 3rd places go to three other teams: Globetrotter, Lua Xanh and

Green.


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3rd places: Globetrotter, Lua Xanh and Green


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Chn Tm (red shirts - 1stprize) and Ban Tay (black shirts - 2nd prize)

recieved presents from the Organizers.

Organizers representative hands out presents to delicates

The virtual journey comes to an end at 6:00 PM and leaves every

participants with a lot of emotion. Some were sad, some were happy,

some smiled. The organizers hope that this would be a memorable and

meaningful journey for all participants, the five teams, audiences and

volunteers. Our Journey Sustainable Tourism is our life-style, is the way

we act and behave that related to culture, society and environment. Letslive a sustainable life style, not only just for yourself but also for other

people.

There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all

crew.

(Marshall Mcluhan)


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The joy and happiness of 5 teams, invited guests, audiences and

organizing committee at the end of the contest.


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