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Da Nang welcomes first group of tourists after over two months
Updated: 08:13, 05/10/2020
The Department of Tourism in central Da Nang city held a ceremony on October 4 to welcome the first group of domestic tourists after more than two months all tourism activities in the city were suspended to help fight the Covid-19 pandemic.
The 55-strong group was flown to Da Nang from Hanoi. They had a plan to travel to Da Nang in August, but had to delay due to the reoccurrence of the pandemic.
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Representatives of Da Nang's tourism sector welcome the first tourists to the city after the pandemic has been brought under control. |
Deputy Director of the Da Nang Tourism Promotion Centre Mai Thi Thanh Hai said that welcoming tourists to Da Nang in early October is of significance to the central city.
The city is ready to serve tourists with a commitment to ensuring safety for them, and destinations have been upgraded with new and better products, she added.
At present, 447 hotels resume their operations and 11 out of the 16 tourist sites reopen doors to visitors.
Several trains resumed trips to famous tourist destinations across Vietnam on Friday after the second Covid-19 outbreak was deemed contained.
The “Green Travel” website, a Vietnam’s official tourism website for foreign tourists has been launched recently at the address www.vietnam.travel/sustainability.
Da Nang authorities are seeking permission for special flights to evacuate nearly 1,700 tourists stranded due to Covid-19 outbreaks from the city.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has agreed to evacuate 400 travelers stuck in central Da Nang, Vietnam's new novel coronavirus epicenter.
An increased number of flights will be operated to ferry home 80,000 people, mostly local tourists, stranded in Da Nang following the fresh Covid-19 outbreak there.
Source: NDO/VNA
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