A cruise boat in Han River in Da Nang. (Photo: VNA)Da Nang (VNA) - Kayak, a Singapore-based travel booking site, hasnamed Da Nang among the top 10 places of choice for Singaporean tourists.
The listing was made based on booking and travel trends in the first eightmonths of this year.
The Indonesian city of Bandung, surrounded by the lush green Parahyanganmountains, topped the list. It was followed by Indonesia’s Yogyakarta, LuzonIslands in the Philippines and Malaysia’s Kuching.
Vietnam currently provides a reciprocal 30-day visa exemption for citizens ofASEAN member nations.
Along with Chinese and Republic of Koreans, Singaporeans have been the biggestvisitors to Da Nang in recent years.
Last month Singapore’s Channel News Asia had included Da Nang in a list of five“under the radar” destinations in South and Southeast Asia.
Travel magazine Live and Invest Overseas voted Da Nang among world’smost livable cities earlier this year.
The number of travellers to the city has been increasing yearafter year, with an average annual growth of 20.06 percent between 2013 and2017.
It hosted 6.6 million tourists, including 1.67 millionforeigners, last year. The figure was more than 4 million visitors in the firsthalf of 2018, surging by almost 30 percent year-on-year. Notably, vacationersfrom the Republic of Korea shot up by 100 percent to account for half of theover 1.6 million foreign arrivals in the city during the period. -VNA
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