Tourists in Da Nang (Photo: banahills.sunworld.vn)According to the mjunicipal Department of Tourism, in the first quarter of thisyear, the city received 1.4 million visitors, up 4.6% year on year, including 391,600foreigners, 62 times higher than that in the same period last year.
The figures weresimilar to those recorded in the same time of 2019, showing the city’s strongperformance in promoting its tourism development and tourism ecosystem, Dungsaid.
He noted that thestaying duration of tourists also increased to 1.66 days per visitor on theaverage.
Dung attributed theresult to the resumption of international air routes to the central city, noting that todate, Da Nang airport has been opened to 16 regular international routesoperated by 20 airlines, with more than 280 flights per week carrying about560,000 passengers.
Alongside, Da Nang hasalso received a large number of visitors coming by sea. In the first quarter ofthis year, the city welcomed nine cruise ships with 7,300 passengers.
However, Dung saidthat in the long run, Da Nang should seek more new tourism products to meet theincreasing demands of tourists.
Nguyen Xuan Binh, ViceDirector of the city Tourism Department said that in the time to come, the citywill organise tourism promotion activities in Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia,while completing a plan to hold a summer festival in the city.
At the same time, thecity will continue to design projects to develop tourism products, whileproposing to the municipal People’s Committee a project to promote localcuisine into a tourism product in the 2023-2030 period, and coordinating withthe People’s Committee of Son Tra district to build a plan to pilot night-timetourism at Nguyen Van Troi bridge and the park on the foot of the bridge. A pedestrians’zone will also be organise along Bach Dang-Trang Hung Dao streets, he said./.
VNA
