Son Tra Peninsula - a tourist destination in Da Nang city (Photo: VNA)Seoul (VNA) – Da Nang city in central Vietnam is themost popular summer vacation destination of tourists from the Republic of Korea(RoK) this year, a shift from last year’s preference for Japanese cities.
The RoK media quoted e-commerce website TicketMonster (TMON) as saying that flight ticket sales in the July-August periodshowed Da Nang as the top foreign travel location. Travel in the city isrelatively cheap, about 100,000 won (90.33 USD) per day, and is a manageabledistance from the RoK, about four and a half hours by flight.
TMON said its sales data shows a growingpreference for places that offer hotel, resort, shopping and tourism activitiesaltogether.
In this website’s rankings, Da Nang is followedby the Japanese destinations of Osaka and Fukuoka.
[Photos: Walking high above on Golden Bridge in Da Nang city]
Last June, TMON named the city among themost popular tourist destinations for Koreans, both solo and couple travellersas well as those travelling with their families.
Da Nang has emerged as a destination of leisure,media and spiritual tourism, as well as entertainment and shopping activities,and a venue of conferences.
According to the municipal Department ofTourism, the number of visitors to the city is increasing with annual averagegrowth of 20.06 percent in the 2013-2017 period.
It welcomed more than 4 million tourists in thefirst half of 2018, surging by almost 30 percent year on year. Notably,vacationers from the RoK shot up by 100 percent to account for half of the over1.6 million foreign arrivals in the city during the period.-VNA
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