Essays on APEC

The institutional affiliation

The Tourism Satellite Account (TSA) is considered to be the main tool for the harmonization and reconciliation of both tourism supply and tourism demand within the general framework of the System of National Accounts. Despite TSA’s obvious advantages, its implementation brings many challenges, especially for such developing countries as Vietnam. Key issues of human resource capacity include a lack of technical and business competencies required for the development of TSA, limited awareness of the need for environmental protection, low capacity of tourism product management, and tourism services overall, as well as bad capital investment (APEC TOURISM WORKING GROUP, ...

Seawater Pretreatment Process

Desalination or treatment of seawater is a process in which fresh water that is suitable for consumption is extracted from the saline water (Pearce, 2007). Many methods are used in the desalination process, but the most applied and efficient one are reverse osmosis. The sea water that is fed to the reverse osmosis plants, many times has large particles which end up spoiling the membranes of the plants due to the high level of large particles in the seawater (Van Hoof, Hashim, & Kordes,1999). Therefore, to reduce operation cost and treatment time, there is a need for a pretreatment ...

Canada and Vietnam have been trading partners since time immemorial. The first diplomatic relations between the two countries took place in 1973, and an embassy was opened in Hanoi. In addition, the countries also opened a Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City by mutual consent in 1997 (Government of Canada, 2014). In 1954, Vietnams quit from the International Commission for Supervision and control due to resentments with France. Canada remained a member for over twenty years. The Embassy of Canada is located in Hanoi in Vietnam. On the other hand, the Embassy of Vietnam and a trade office ...

The Association of South East Asian Nations, or ASEAN, is comprised of ten member countries that have come together to form a regional economic and trade bloc in the international community of nations already committed to pursue free and fair trade in many spheres of international fora. As the entire world gears up to realize a new globalized economic world order, countries have increasingly resorted to strengthen regional ties and promote regional cooperation and achieve the global goals of free trade within their respective economic regions, while at the same time committing to the targets of the World Trade Organization in ...