Leadership Development & Doing Business in Vietnam
Vietnam • Summer & Fall 2022

This program has been built to help students build on their leadership and teamwork skills through team building activities at the same time hone their intercultural communication competence and business insights in order to live and be an entrepreneur in one of the world’s fastest-growing economies.
INCLUSION
- Tradition and modernity experienced at once
- Experience life in Ho Chi Minh City, formerly known as Saigon, the Pearl of the Far East and nowadays the most bustling city of Vietnam
- Overnight excursion with traditional homestay in Mekong Delta, river exploration of villages and boat excursion to the Cai Be or Cai Rang floating markets and opportunity for a walking exploration of little workshops for the production of rice paper, rice crispy, and honey and coconut candy
- Highly engage with the local community through cultural activities, conversations with a variety of local inhabitants from diverse backgrounds about their work and family lives and most importantly the volunteer project to help out in a meaningful way
PARTICIPANTS
University Undergraduate and Graduate students
NATIONALITY
International
PARTICIPANTS
10+ students, 01 faculty
DATES
10 days
ACCOMMODATION
3-star hotel
LANGUAGE
English
Tentative schedule
- Day 1:
- Morning/Afternoon: Arrive in Vietnam, airport pick up, hotel check-in, Orientation, welcome dinner.
- Includes:
- Coach, hotel, Room for Orientation.
- Welcome dinner.
- Day 2:
- Morning/Afternoon: City tour: culture, history, lifestyle. Explore the city with local Vietnamese students. The tour ends with a cultural shows such as AO at the Opera house.
- Includes:
- Hotel. Show tickets. Coach. Entrance tickets for the tour.
- Breakfast at hotel
- Lunch on tour
- Dinner on own
- Day 3:
- Morning: University visit. Campus tour. Culture exchange activity with local students. Guest lecture on Vietnamese culture and food culture. Experience lunch on campus.
- Afternoon: Street food tour with local buddies.
- Includes:
- Hotel. Coach. Lectures.
- Breakfast at the hotel.
- Lunch on your own.
- Dinner on own.
- Day 4:
- Morning: Visit the Canadian commercial chamber OR The consulate of Canada to learn about the trade activities and future collaboration between Vietnam and Canada.
- Afternoon: Guest lecture on Vietnam’s economy.
- Includes:
- Hotel. Coach. Lecture. Visit.
- Breakfast at the hotel.
- Lunch, dinner on your own.
- Morning: Visit the Canadian commercial chamber OR The consulate of Canada to learn about the trade activities and future collaboration between Vietnam and Canada.
- Day 5:
- Morning/Afternoon: Company visit
- Includes:
- Hotel. Coach.
- Breakfast at hotel
- Lunch and dinner on your own.
- Day 6 & 7:
- Morning/Afternoon:
- Mekong delta overnight tour.
- Back to the city on day 7 evening.
- Mekong delta overnight tour.
- Includes:
- Hotel. Homestay. Breakfast
- Lunch and Dinner during the tour. Coach.
- Morning/Afternoon:
- Day 8:
- Morning/Afternoon:
- Seminar/Lecture on Corporate with sustainable development in reality in Vietnam.
- Visit a company and learn about its CSR projects.
- Seminar/Lecture on Corporate with sustainable development in reality in Vietnam.
- Includes:
- Vietnam. Hotel. Coach. Seminar. Visit.
- Breakfast at the hotel. Lunch and dinner on your own.
- Morning/Afternoon:
- Day 9:
- Morning: Bring a new brand to Vietnam: a VIP talk from a branding expert.
- Afternoon: Company visit. Farewell dinner.
- Includes:
- Breakfast at the hotel.
- Lunch on own Farewell dinner
- Coach. Seminar. Visit.
- Morning: Bring a new brand to Vietnam: a VIP talk from a branding expert.
- Day 10:
- Morning: Departure and airport see off
- Includes: Breakfast at hotel, coach.
** The itinerary is subject to change due to the availability of stakeholders as well as unexpected circumstance.
** Companies to visit: we can customize based on request.
Tentative locations
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Duration
15 days
What’s usually included in our price
We customize the itinerary to best meet your needs and objectives. Program fee depends on duration, number of participants and in detailed inquiries for each program, thus we do not have a fixed program fee for all. With a group of 10 students, the program fee in the location(s) of 01 faculty staff will be free of charge.
Our standard full program fee covers:
- Airport transfer
- Accommodation: 3-star hotel, twin room, same-gender/room, single room for university faculty, free Wi-Fi and room service
- Meals: Breakfast at hotel; welcome and farewell dinners; other meals as listed in the itinerary
- Program development
- Program coordinator accompanies the group in every activity for the whole program;
- Local buddies arrangement (if requested)
- On-site orientation;
- Company visits arrangement;
- Guide and entrance fees for all excursions as listed in the itinerary
- Transportation as described in the program itinerary
- 24/7 emergency contact number (SOS card);
- All gratuities to bus drivers, tour guides and/ or similar.
EXCLUSION
- International airfare to and from Vietnam (departure taxes included)
- International travel insurance
- Visa stamping fee
- Additional meals
- Optional entertainment and excursions
- Excess baggage fees
- All personal items & expenses.
PROGRAM FEE
- Fee for the group of 10 – 14 students, 01 faculty: $1636 USD/student
- Fee for the group of 15 – 19 students, 01 faculty: $1343 USD/student
- Fee for the group of 20 – 25 students, 01 faculty: $1197 USD/student
- Additional fee for single room request: $225 USD/student.
PROCEDURE
1: Faculty sends an inquiry to ABROADER.
2: ABROADER gets in touch with faculty within 02 working days for more details if it is needed.
3: A proposal with a program fee will be sent to faculty for approval in the next 02 weeks.
4: ABROADER supports providing necessary information to promote the program on campus channels or collecting program fees from participants if requested.
5: ABROADER starts logistical procedures to run the program (visa, student information and health & safety, and pre-departure orientation, etc.)
We endeavor to guarantee that through every stage of our process, issues like power and privilege, diversity and inclusion, community voice and reciprocity are taken into full consideration to make sure that every stakeholder is heard and included.
If you still have questions, feel free to contact us!
REVIEWs ON US

Featured educators
“Working with ABROADER has been a delight; their partnership in building a program that works for both our model and local realities has been top notch. Over the last few years, we have worked closely together to open a new location for Northwestern’s Global Engagement Studies Institute (GESI) in Hanoi. This eight-week program sends small groups of Northwestern students to intern directly with community-based organizations in Hanoi to partner on work prioritized by the host organization. ABROADER builds and maintains relationships with a wide variety of organizations that are passionate about their missions, as well as hosting students.”
COREY ANNE PORTELL
Northwestern University, United States
Senior Program Manager, Global Engagement Programs, Global Learning Office

Featured educators
“I thank you for your warm greetings ever since my first visit to Hanoi in 2015. We mainly deal with study tours for Japanese university students, but it is not unusual for students to go abroad for the first time. In an environment where individualized care is required for such students, sincere support has always been provided. Also, seeing our students interact with local students and host families in English, which is not their native language, allows for communication from the heart, which extends beyond just language. That experience has led to their confidence, and this is always touching. All of this is thanks to the pre-training of local students and host families and your efforts as a team.”
YUKO TAKAMOCHI
Ryugaku Journal Inc., Japan
Corporate Sales Manager, Private Organization for Overseas Education

Featured educators
“ABROADER has an extensive industry network that they utilise to provide the students with industry tours relevant to their classroom work. They have well established links to a number of Vietnamese Universities and use them such that coordinated activities and learning experiences are shared between Vietnamese students and students from Newcastle. ABROADER also maintains a local buddy system which providé an amazing insight into the Vietnamese people and culture. Students from Newcastle also appreciate the culture and volunteer days, not only as a break from their classroom studies, but as a learning experience as well as a chance to give a little back to Vietnam.”
JAMES WELSH
University of Newcastle, Australia
Associate Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Computing

Featured educators
“For many years, ABROADER has been my trusted partner when I send my students to Vietnam. From ABROADER’s vast network of relationships with great industry leaders to their ability to pair students with local buddies, ABROADER ensures that my students gain a learning experience of a lifetime through deep immersion into the local businesses and culture. In helping with getting my students’ visas processed and from a risk management perspective as well, their team is reliably efficient, thorough, flexible, and highly professional. My heart-felt thanks to Lucy Nguyen and her excellent team for all that you do for my students!”
PROFESSOR LYNN IMAI
Ivey Business School, Western University, Canada
Counsellor & Coach | Global Leadership Expert

Featured educators
“I would like to thank you for your leadership, guidance and support of our pre-service teachers. Your thorough planning, preparation and attention to detail, along with your outstanding leadership during this professional experience, ensured that it was a great success for all concerned. The experiences that you enabled our pre-service teachers to have, and the relationships that you have built with collaborating schools, are vital to the work of the Faculty Education at Monash University. Your wealth of knowledge and experience in supporting the organization of quality International Professional Experience for our students is highly appreciated and valued.”
DOCTOR REBECCA COOPER
Monash University, Australia
Senior Lecturer

Featured educators
“I was part of the Ohio University Global Engagement team that visited Vietnam in 2019. Lucy and her team made the trip a never-to-forget trip. Though we were a bunch of faculty and staff, not the usual exchange students that ABROADER handles, they still were there for us. From the stroll in the central market of Ho Chi Minh City, boat-ride down the Mekong Delta, interaction with local business leaders and university faculty – ABROADER did an excellent job! When it comes to groups, exchange students, study-abroad students’ trips to Vietnam intending to have an authentic worthy Vietnamese experience, then without a shade of doubt, I would recommend ABROADER!”
GREG-VICTOR C. OBI, PH.D.
Ohio University, United States
Professor of Business Management Tech – College of Business






