A corner of Da Nang city (Source: VNA)Da Nang (VNA) – The centralcoastal city of Da Nang expects to welcome nearly 332,500 visitors during theupcoming Tet (Lunar New Year), a year-on-year increase of 11.9 percent.
As the Tet holiday makes for a busy tourism season for people from China,Japan, the Republic of Korea (RoK), the EU, and the US, as well as overseasVietnamese, the city hopes the number of foreigner visitors will rise 23.1percent to hit 162,600. Thanks to the opening of several direct flightsconnecting Da Nang to Incheon, Busan, and Daegu (RoK), Osaka (Japan), Bangkok(Thailand), and Doha (Qatar), foreign tourists will now find it much easier tovisit the city.
More domestic tourists are expected in the city too, especially after VietnamAirlines rolls out its Da Nang-Can Tho route with seven round trips per week.
An array of cultural activities have been scheduled in the city for Tet,including a dazzling firework display to welcome in the New Year, anexhibition, as well as the presentation of gifts to the year’s first visitorsto the city, among others.
According to Vice Director of the municipal Department of Tourism Nguyen XuanBinh, localities, travel agents, and tourism service firms have worked toensure social order, environmental hygiene, food safety, and good qualityservices.
Thecity hasset the target of welcoming 8.19 million visitors throughout 2019, a rise of6.9 percent year-on-year, which includes 3.19 million foreigners, an increase of11 percent. The tourism sector aims to gross 27.4 trillion VND (1.18 billionUSD) in revenue, up 13.9 percent against the previous year.
Da Nang city hasbeen a rising popular tourism destination in central Vietnam. The onlinemarketplace and hospitality service Airbnb announced listings of the world’stop 10 destinations for 2018, in which the city ranked fifth with a 255 percentgrowth in bookings. Meanwhile, travel magazine Live and Invest Overseas votedDa Nang among world’s most livable cities last year.–VNA
As the Tet holiday makes for a busy tourism season for people from China,Japan, the Republic of Korea (RoK), the EU, and the US, as well as overseasVietnamese, the city hopes the number of foreigner visitors will rise 23.1percent to hit 162,600. Thanks to the opening of several direct flightsconnecting Da Nang to Incheon, Busan, and Daegu (RoK), Osaka (Japan), Bangkok(Thailand), and Doha (Qatar), foreign tourists will now find it much easier tovisit the city.
More domestic tourists are expected in the city too, especially after VietnamAirlines rolls out its Da Nang-Can Tho route with seven round trips per week.
An array of cultural activities have been scheduled in the city for Tet,including a dazzling firework display to welcome in the New Year, anexhibition, as well as the presentation of gifts to the year’s first visitorsto the city, among others.
According to Vice Director of the municipal Department of Tourism Nguyen XuanBinh, localities, travel agents, and tourism service firms have worked toensure social order, environmental hygiene, food safety, and good qualityservices.
Thecity hasset the target of welcoming 8.19 million visitors throughout 2019, a rise of6.9 percent year-on-year, which includes 3.19 million foreigners, an increase of11 percent. The tourism sector aims to gross 27.4 trillion VND (1.18 billionUSD) in revenue, up 13.9 percent against the previous year.
Da Nang city hasbeen a rising popular tourism destination in central Vietnam. The onlinemarketplace and hospitality service Airbnb announced listings of the world’stop 10 destinations for 2018, in which the city ranked fifth with a 255 percentgrowth in bookings. Meanwhile, travel magazine Live and Invest Overseas votedDa Nang among world’s most livable cities last year.–VNA
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