Over recent years, Da Nang has given top priority to furthering the development of local river tourism by creating new and attractive tourism products for visitors.

The Da Nang Tourism Promotion Centre has conducted research on development models for tourist boats, piers and wharves.  Special attention has been paid to introducing the city’s river tourism promotion policies to those who want to seek investment opportunities in the city. 

Currently, there are many tourist boat companies offering sightseeing boat tours on the Han River for domestic and foreign visitors.  However, there are several shortcomings in the operation of these companies. 

A tourist boat on the Han River

In particular, there are still illegal ticket brokers along Bach Dang street.  Some of the boat companies have arbitrarily reduced ticket prices from 100,000 VND to only 70,000 VND or 50,000 VND per ticket per person in order to attract more passengers.  They have also shortened the journey time to save fuel.  In addition, there is a lack of lighting at the passenger pick-up and drop-off points along the street, and there are no ladders to get onto the boats.  This all gives visitors a bad impression of the service quality of the city’s river tourism products.

The Director of the local Tourism Promotion Centre, Mr Nguyen Xuan Binh, therefore recently highlighted the importance of identifying long-term strategies for boosting the development of the city’s river tourism.  Importance will be attached to improving the quality of the products along the banks of the Han River, building international-standard piers, and ensuring waterways safety and water hygiene.  This will help to develop river tourism into one of the city’s special tourism products.