Huynh Duc Tho, the People’s Committee vice chairman, stated that Da Nang boasted stunning beaches and offered easy access to the Marble Mountains and the Son Tra peninsula’s nature preserves. He continued by saying that slum ghetto areas had already been razed to make way for hotels and holiday resorts.
The vice chairman finished off by saying that despite the changes, Da Nang still had not realised its maximum potential as an international destination for tourists. Another speaker, economist Tran Du Lich, told delegates that an additional plus for Da Nang was that its beachside hotels could be used as bases for daytrips to Hoi An and the imperial city of Hue.
As well as Vietnamese participants, the Developing Da Nang seminar drew delegates from Singapore, Japan, the US and Germany. Figures for the first nine months of 2014 show three million people visited Da Nang.
Seminar promotes tourism in Da Nang
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Delegates at a seminar held in Vietnam discussed how to transpose the city of Da Nang into a preferred global tourist destination. More than 300 attendees listened as speakers at the weekend’s seminar expounded on Da Nang’s delights and proposed means of attracting more well-heeled visitors.