During his meeting on Thursday with leaders of the municipal Department of Tourism, Da Nang People’s Committee Vice Chairman Le Trung Chinh highly appreciated them for their great efforts in developing a project on promoting community-based tourism at the Tho Quang and Man Thai beaches.

Vice Chairman Chinh, also stressed the necessity for the relevant agencies to ensure the on-schedule implementation of the project, as well as to avoid negative impacts on the environment surrounding the beaches.

He asked the Department’s leaders and the Son Tra District authorities to collect opinions from functional bodies in order to perfect the project before June.  

On the basis of learning about the community-based tourism model in the Boracay Island in the Philippines and the actual situation at the Tho Quang and Man Thai beaches, the project will feature six 80m-long and 20m-wide clusters of tourism services with an area of 1,600m² each.

Each cluster will feature between 5 and 9 tourism services, including drinks, food and souvenirs.

The project will be implemented in the coastal area in the Tho Quang and Man Thai wards in Son Tra District. The about 1.2km-long area will stretch from the northern side of the Fusion Suites Danang Beach project to the Hoang Sa (Paracel) Exhibition House, and a residential area on the western side of the Hoang Sa - Vo Nguyen Giap route. It will be implemented within 5 years.

The intention is to fully tap the advantages and potential of local tourism resources in a bid to develop new tourism products, and diversify tourism services and public utilities.

In addition, the focus will be on fully exploiting such tourism potential combined with the preservation of traditional fishery villages, introducing daily life activities of fishery villagers to visitors, and creating the opportunities for visitors to experience the life of fishermen or fishing activities.