The central city of Da Nang, in coordination with the Vietnamese Embassyin Russia, organised a programme in Moscow on August 18 to promotelocal tourism.
Speaking before a crowd of representatives fromRussian travel agencies, Chairman of the municipal People’s CommitteeVan Huu Chien highlighted the city’s potential for developing tourism,including a 60km long beach, a convenient location accessible by land,air, and sea as well as its proximity to three World Heritage sites –the ancient imperial city of Hue, the ancient port town of Hoi An andthe Cham holy land of My Son.
Da Nang is considered as themost liveable city in Vietnam, Chien noted, adding that the citywelcomed more than 3 million visitors, including 750,000 foreigners,last year.
The official called on Russian travel firms to pay more attention to the city in the coming time.
The city’s representatives also introduced to participants attractionsin the city such as popular tourist destinations, entertainmentfacilities, cultural activities, accommodations and internationalflights.
In the first half of this year, Da Nang sawmore than 1.7 million tourist arrivals, up 15.8 percent from the sameperiod last year. Of this, the number of foreigners topped 450,600, ayear-on-year rise of 15.7 percent.
Da Nang is home to aninternational airport with eight domestic routes and 20 internationalones, an international seaport which welcomes 700,000 arrivals eachyear, and 337 accommodation facilities, including 10 five-star and ninefour-star hotels and resorts.
The city has been ranked among thetop ten most outstanding new emerging destinations in Asia in 2014 bythe users of agoda.com, a renowned hotel booking website.-VNA
Speaking before a crowd of representatives fromRussian travel agencies, Chairman of the municipal People’s CommitteeVan Huu Chien highlighted the city’s potential for developing tourism,including a 60km long beach, a convenient location accessible by land,air, and sea as well as its proximity to three World Heritage sites –the ancient imperial city of Hue, the ancient port town of Hoi An andthe Cham holy land of My Son.
Da Nang is considered as themost liveable city in Vietnam, Chien noted, adding that the citywelcomed more than 3 million visitors, including 750,000 foreigners,last year.
The official called on Russian travel firms to pay more attention to the city in the coming time.
The city’s representatives also introduced to participants attractionsin the city such as popular tourist destinations, entertainmentfacilities, cultural activities, accommodations and internationalflights.
In the first half of this year, Da Nang sawmore than 1.7 million tourist arrivals, up 15.8 percent from the sameperiod last year. Of this, the number of foreigners topped 450,600, ayear-on-year rise of 15.7 percent.
Da Nang is home to aninternational airport with eight domestic routes and 20 internationalones, an international seaport which welcomes 700,000 arrivals eachyear, and 337 accommodation facilities, including 10 five-star and ninefour-star hotels and resorts.
The city has been ranked among thetop ten most outstanding new emerging destinations in Asia in 2014 bythe users of agoda.com, a renowned hotel booking website.-VNA
