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Truong Thi Hong Hanh, director of the city Department of Tourism, said his agency has submitted draft plans to the city administration for admitting two kinds of international visitors. The first will comprise foreigners arriving in Vietnam on commercial flights for official and business purposes. They will be quarantined for seven days on arrival and told to monitor their health for another seven as mandated by the Ministry of Health. The second group will comprise visitors from designated markets that have resumed tourism and instituted a vaccine passport program. They are required to book package tours with designated travel agencies. Initially city authorities eye tourists from Russia and South Korea, which have resumed tourism activities and eased quarantine restrictions. Currently South Koreans returning from Vietnam are exempt from quarantine while Russians only need to quarantine for seven days, Hanh said. South Korean travel firms want to bring 200 tourists a week … [Read more...] about Da Nang eyes return of foreign tourists in November

Illustrative image (Photo: SGGP) The department has proposed the People’s Committee of the city to consider the plan for tourism recovery after ease of Covid-19 restrictions. At first, Da Nang will resume tourism activities for visitors within the city from October 20 and then welcome domestic travelers coming from some localities, such as Quang Nam and Quang Ninh. In November, the city will welcome foreign arrivals who travel to Da Nang for missions, visiting relatives and repatriation. The city encourages visitors who have vaccine passport to choose tours or travel packages, coming from countries that bring the Covid-19 pandemic under control, including South Korea and Russia. The municipal authorities will open the city for more countries after the Government allows Da Nang to recover international air routes. Korean visitors who visit Vietnam and return to homeland will not be required to quarantine but Russian to get 7-day isolation period, said Ms.Hanh. Travel … [Read more...] about Da Nang plans to reopen for international tourists in November

Da Nang will host the 16th annual Routes Asia Development Forum 2022 on June 6-8 of 2022 as an announcement was made at the World Routes Development Forum – an aviation and tourism industry event – in Milan, Italy on Monday. A night view of the Han River in Da Nang. The central city will host the 16th annual Routes Asia Development Forum 2022 on June 6-8 of 2022. Deputy Director of the city’s tourism department Nguyen Xuan Binh said the annual event, which will be co-organised by the Da Nang People’s Committee, IPP Travel Retail, a subsidiary of Imex Pan Pacific Group (IPPG) and Informa Routes, will offer a platform for airlines, airports and tourism authorities to boost co-operative relationships, and set up new routes and expand aviation networks, driving international tourism and aviation activities while connecting Da Nang with regional and global air transport networks. Speaking at World Routes, Steven Small, Director of Routes, said: “We are very excited to be … [Read more...] about Da Nang to host Routes Asia Forum in 2022

Vietnam’s central hub Da Nang City has decided to resume most businesses given COVID-19 adaptation, except beauty and recreational activities, after two weeks of no new community coronavirus infections. Such resumption will be announced in a decision expected to be issued by local authorities on Friday, going in tandem with the central government’s guidance on safe adaptation to the COVID-19 pandemic in ‘new normal conditions,’ or living safely with the coronavirus. The new loosening, which is scheduled to take effect from Saturday, follows the previous easing having been applied by the city since September 30, from which the city has recorded no new COVID-19 cases. “From October 16, the city will resume almost all operations, except those of beauty salons, discos, massage parlors, bars, pubs, karaoke shops, and some others,” said Ngo Thi Kim Yen, deputy chairwoman of the Da Nang administration. Upon reopening, all establishments, including dine-in restaurants, are required to … [Read more...] about Da Nang to reopen most activities in COVID-19 adaptation

Passengers at Da Nang International Airport on Tuesday evening. — VNA/VNS Photo Van Dung The Da Nang International Airport welcomed the first commercial flight from HCM City operated by Vietnam Airlines on Tuesday evening after the route resumed, the carrier said yesterday. Passengers on the flight satisfied pandemic prevention and control requirements including a negative COVID-19 test certificate, full vaccination with two shots, or certificate of recovery from the disease. The airline has restored 14 domestic routes since October 10. For the routes between Da Nang and Ha Noi and HCM City, it is allowed to conduct five return flights on each route during the pilot period from October 10 to 20. The number is expected to increase in the coming days after cities issue specific pandemic prevention and control regulations and facilitate the travel of people. Vietnam Airlines operated nine commercial flights on Tuesday, comprising two between Ha Noi and HCM City, two each on … [Read more...] about Vietnam Airlines operates first commercial flight on HCM City-Da Nang route

Tourism authorities of Vietnam’s central city of Da Nang are devising plans to welcome travelers after months of implementing strict restrictions against COVID-19 spread, with a vision to bring back foreign tourists in the future. The local administration on Thursday agreed to open their doors to domestic tourists and is seeking principal approval from the central government to bring back international travelers, the municipal Department of Tourism stated on Thursday. More specifically, city officials outlined a three-phase plan to relaunch local tourism services. The first stage, lasting till the end of October, will target Da Nang residents and public officials on duty in the city. The second phase, which starts in November, envisions a ‘travel bubble’ model, where tourists from several provinces and cities deemed safe will be allowed to visit Da Nang and vice versa. It is expected that the success of the model will decide the launch of the third phase, where tourism … [Read more...] about Vietnam’s Da Nang welcomes back domestic travelers, mulls reopening to foreign tourists