Tourism sector plays an important role as a driving force of Da Nang’s economic development. Hence, top priority is given to promoting the development of tourism with a focus on diversifying tourism products and targeting at main source markets for overseas tourists coming to Da Nang. 

The My Khe Beach is very attractive to both domestic and foreign visitors thanks to its clear blue waters and soft white sands.

Da Nang has high hopes for its new tourism projects that will allow it to achieve positive changes and make it different from other Vietnamese localities. Included are developing community-based tourism in Tho Quang - Man Thai beaches, Nam O village, and Hoa Vang District.

The emphasis is on creating a tourism cluster at Tho Quang - Man Thai beaches that will be a collective of cafes, bars, restaurants, souvenir stores, massage parlours, an area for organising events and festivals, and more. In addition, heed will be paid to developing fishing life experience tour to offer visitors the real fisherman experience, organising coracle decoration and arrangement on the beach, and offering water sports activities and tours for exploring coral reefs and marine life with a choice of undersea activities.

The Nam O community-based tourism project in Lien Chieu District is highly expected to fully tap local great advantages and potential to create new tourism products, hereby, diversifying types of services and utilities for the public interests.

The focus will be on developing tours to watch sunrises and sunsets over Nam O Bay from coracle boats, swim at Nam O Beach, and visit such unique cultural and architectural relic sites as square wells, a worship place dedicated to the souls of the fallen Vietnamese revolutionary soldiers in their struggle against the French forces in the years of 1858, 1859, and 1862, and a temple dedicated to Goddess Lieu Hanh, one of four immortals in Vietnamese legends.

Also, visitors will have a chance to explore local culture, visit time-honoured traditional craft villages and enjoy Nam O specialities, take photos at Nam O Reef, have pleasant homestay experiences with the locals, visit mural villages, and walk around the Nam O Reef for relaxation.

Apart from Nam O Lancaster Resort, an ecotourism cluster around the Nam O Reef which includes rest stops, the Snail Museum and coracle boat tours will be developed.

On display at the Snail Museum will be products related to sea snails, and handicraft products made from slow moving marine gastropod molluscs.

Da Nang is very attractive to both domestic and international visitors thanks to its beautiful mountains, romantic rivers, and amazing beaches with its clear blue waters and soft white sands. However, the city will make greater efforts to fully tap its resources, develop new tourism products, adapt to changing tastes, and provide the the best tourism service possible for visitor arrivals in order to make the city more inviting to them and inspire them to come back.

In an attempt to increase visitor arrivals to Da Nang, the focus will be on preserving and promoting the national intangible cultural values of local traditional craft villages including the Nam O fish sauce making village, Cam Ne sedge mat-making village, the Non Nuoc Stone Carving Village, as well as turning these villages into inviting places in the city.

In addition, special attention will be paid on fully tapping tourism potential of the city in combination with conserving heritage, advertising craft village practices and their products to domestic and foreign visitors, and facilitating local residents to tout for business from tourism activities, thereby improving their living conditions. The importance will be paid on offering visitor arrivals memorable experiences in tandem with protecting the natural environment.

By THU HA - Translated by MAI DUNG