Tourism beach hub ranked among most searched destinations by Indian travellers

Artists perform at a beach festival in Đà Nẵng City. The central city was ranked among the most searched destinations by Indian tourists on the travel website Skyscanner. VNS Photo Công Thành

ĐÀ NẴNG — The central city of Đà Nẵng was ranked one of the most searched destinations by Indian tourists in terms of food, weather, shopping and historical site visits on the travel website Skyscanner – with a 1,141 per cent increase, the city’s tourism promotion centre said.

It said 71 per cent of search hits by Indian tourists focused on food, while 65 per cent queried weather in the beach hub in central Việt Nam.

The centre also said Đà Nẵng joined the top 10 search destinations on Skyscanner, a list including Krabi (Thailand), Mahe (Seychelles), Almaty (Kazakhstan), Baku (Azerbaijan) and Osaka (Japan).

About 38 per cent of searches targeted the opportunity of tasting local cuisine in Đà Nẵng when visiting the coastal destination in 2024.

Đà Nẵng has more than 100 restaurants serving from 100 to 300 guests at a given time, and 30 Indian food restaurants.

Fishermen draw in fishing nets with the morning catch on the beach of Đà Nẵng City.  Pristine beaches and weather are two popular searches by Indian travellers. Photo courtesy of Đặng Ngọc Hà 

The city’s tourism department earlier hosted a promotion programme in New Delhi and Gurugram, India, and called on Air India, Vistara and IndiGo to launch more air routes between Đà Nẵng and India.

The department said 95,000 visitors from India had visited the city, accounting 50 per cent of total Indian tourists visiting Việt Nam in nine months of 2023.

Five-star Furama resort Đà Nẵng had already prepared for hosting MICE and weddings for Indian tourists, while low-cost carrier Vietjet Air resumed seven new international routes from Đà Nẵng to the five largest cities in India – New Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad and Bangalore – in early 2022.

Indian travel companies including One Above, In Time, Tourister Vinnaayak Holidays, Kesari Travels, Jain&Jain, While Board and Plutus Voyage, also paid attention to favoured locations on the beach in Đà Nẵng.

Basheer Adul Rahim, director of One Above from India, expects that the number of Indian tourists to Đà Nẵng would reach 3 million in the next two years, with new direct air routes launched between Đà Nẵng and New Delhi.

The complex of Furama resort Đà Nẵng-Ariyana was awarded with World luxury Awards 2023 in categories of the Best Luxury Beach resort in ASEAN, while Don Cipriani’s restaurant was awarded as the Best Luxury Heritage restaurant in Asia.

A view of beach-front Ariyana International Convention Centre, the Best Convention Centre in Việt Nam, is a favourite site for hosting MICE and Wedding service tours from India. Photo courtesy of Furama Đà Nẵng Resort

Furama’s International Convention Centre –host of the APEC 2017 – won as the Best Convention Centre in Việt Nam, and V-Sense Wellness & Spa in the resort took the Best Theme Spa design in Asia.

Đà Nẵng hosted 5.6 million tourists, of which 1.6 million were international arrivals, in three quarters of 2023. VNS

Gifts for flood victims and poor people

Donations raised from a U2U & Friends friendly football tournament in Đà Nẵng city will be presented to families of the dead from flooding in the central region, national athletes with disabilities, facilities for an ethnic group boarding school and underprivileged university students. Photo courtesy of JFC Đà Nẵng 

ĐÀ NẴNG — A donation, raised from U2U & Friends friendly football tournament in the central city, will be presented to families of the dead from flooding in the central region, national athletes with disabilities, facilities for an ethnic group boarding school and underprivileged university students in Quảng Trị, Thừa Thiên Huế and Quảng Nam provinces.

The tournament organising committee said the VNĐ120 million (US$4,800) donation was contributed from Việt Nam’s Unicorn Ultra block chain platform, Đà Nẵng Journalist Football club and Sơn Trà district at the football tourney.

It said the donation would go toward six families of flood victims, six disabled sportspersons with good results in the Hangzhou Asian Para Games, equipment for a school board in Nam Giang district of Quảng Nam Province, and scholarships for two poor students at Duy Tân Đà Nẵng University.

This is part of a series charity programmes worth more than $280,000 donated from community, businesses and football tournaments to support flood victims and poor people in central Việt Nam in 2016-23.

The football tourney’s organisers said the donation will soon be handed over to families and poor people. VNS

WAR EXHIBITION – Foreign visitors view memorabilia of Vietnamese soldiers and people during the resistance war at the exhibition titled “Kỷ Vật Thời Kháng Chiến” (Remembrances of Resistance Days), which is open to the end of March at the HCM City War Remnants Museum. VNA/VNS Photo by Thu Hương

HCM CITY — A collection of photos and memorabilia of Vietnamese soldiers and people during the resistance war is displayed at the HCM City War Remnants Museum.

The exhibition titled “Kỷ Vật Thời Kháng Chiến” (Remembrances of Resistance Days) features 177 photos, documents, and memorabilia belonging to Vietnamese leaders, soldiers and journalists such as water bottles, lighters, hammocks, document bags, and radios.

The exhibits also include medical instruments and tools of military medical corps, and props from art troupes.

Letters sent by people on the frontline and prisoners to their loved ones and families are showcased as well.

Trần Xuân Thảo, director of the museum, said: “The exhibition helps both local and foreign visitors understand Vietnamese patriotism, bravery, humanistic traditions, and love of peace during the war and today.”

He added, “It is a chance to educate young generations about the nation’s patriotic tradition and heroic and indomitable spirit, and national construction and defence.”

Sharing his thoughts on the exhibition, Alan Sedgley, a British visitor, told Việt Nam News that “I was born in 1949, some of these conflicts were on the television screens in ones’ youth. … gradually as the 1960s went on you appreciated more and more that this was a horrendously awful conflict, with terrible things happening. So it’s right that this place is here to remind people of what happened, and it has ongoing significance on the status of the world.”

The exhibition will run to the end of March. The museum is at 28 Võ Văn Tần Street in District 3. — VNS