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Golden Bridge, a famous tourist attraction in Da Nang city (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – With good performance in the COVID-19 combat, central Da Nang city and its neighbouring province of Quang Nam are seeking permission to welcome international tourists back. Lao dong (Labour) newspaper cited Chairman of the Da Nang People’s Committee Le Trung Chinh as saying that the city has managed to put the latest coronavirus outbreak under control and currently ranks eighth among the 63 provinces and cities in terms of the vaccine coverage, with 95 percent of its population aged 18 and above already getting the first dose and 15 percent, the second. In particular, the city has experience in concurrently receiving people from abroad and ensuring pandemic prevention and control, he noted. Da Nang is a tourism hub of the entire central and Central Highlands regions, but its tourism industry has been hit hard by the pandemic for the past almost two years. While 90 percent of … [Read more...] about Da Nang, Quang Nam ready to welcome int’l visitors back

A poster on the Ministry of Health's 5K message for COVID-19 prevention and control at a public site in Da Nang (Source: VNA) Da Nang (VNA) – Vice Chairwoman of the Da Nang People’s Committee Ngo Thi Kim Yen has asked the municipal health and education departments to build a plan to vaccinate students aged from 15 to under 18 with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine on October 26 – 29. At a meeting of the central city’s Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control on October 22, she said that according to the education and training department’s plan, first-, ninth- and twelfth- graders will go back to school on November 1, with all students following suit on November 8. Yen said the city will receive 100,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine in the near future. At the meeting, the committee reported that Da Nang posted no new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours to 1pm on October 22. As from July 10 to date, the city logged 4,692 infections, with 8,768 people … [Read more...] about Da Nang to vaccinate high school students late this month

The area, which straddles Tran Bach Dang, An Thuong 2, Hoang Ke Viem, Ngo Thi Si, and Vo Nguyen Giap streets in Ngu Hanh Son District, will have surveillance cameras and a wifi system installed. Trees will be planted. Lighting systems will be installed. The work is scheduled for completion next year. The backpacker zone was launched in 2018 and has become popular with tourists. The city is one of five localities that fully vaccinated foreign tourists are allowed to visit under a vaccine passport trial program. The others are Khanh Hoa, Kien Giang, Quang Nam, and Quang Ninh provinces. The city is expected to receive over 11,000 foreign tourists this month. Da Nang authorities also plan to spend VND1.3 million to improve the electricity system and other infrastructure along Vo Nguyen Giap Street to serve the night economy and tourism events on My An beach. Da Nang received more than 8.6 million visitors in 2019 and earned revenues of VND31 trillion from tourism. … [Read more...] about Da Nang to renovate backpacker area at $1.6 mln

Vietnamese tourism officials would work with Thai counterparts to set up a ‘travel bubble’ scheme as Thailand has proved successful in welcoming international tourists amid Covid-19 with the ‘Phuket Sandbox’ model, Nguyen Trung Khanh, head of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism, said at a seminar on Vietnam’s tourism recovery plan. The ‘Phuket Sandbox" program allows travelers who are fully vaccinated to enter the island city of Phuket without quarantine from July 1 and the tourism model has since been expanded across Thailand. Foreign tourists with vaccine passports from over 60 countries and territories, including Vietnam, are exempt from mandatory quarantine upon arrival. The Vietnamese government also plans to resume regular international flights to 15 countries and territories with high vaccination rates, including Thailand, from December. Thailand was Vietnam's fastest growing tourist market before the pandemic, with the number of visitors from that country … [Read more...] about Vietnam to welcome first Thai vaccine passport tourists this month

South Korean tourists, the first foreign arrivals to visit resort island Phu Quoc in Kien Giang Province after nearly two years, stay at Vinpearl Resort & Spa Phu Quoc. — VNA/VNS Photo Hong Dat Viet Nam welcomed over 15,000 foreign tourists in November, up 42.4 per cent from October, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO). The rise is attributed to the Government’s decision to allow a pilot programme to welcome back international tourists who join package tours via either charter flights or international commercial flights to designated places and tourism facilities in Phu Quoc (Kien Giang), Khanh Hoa, Quang Nam, Da Nang and Quang Ninh. In the first 11 months of this year, the number of foreign tourist arrivals to Viet Nam was 140,100, down 96.3 per cent year-on-year. Of the total, the number of visitors arriving by air accounted for 68.9 per cent, down 96.9 per cent; by road accounted for 30.7 per cent, down 92.9 per cent, and by sea made up 0.4 per cent, down … [Read more...] about Foreign tourist arrivals to Viet Nam up 42.4 per cent in November as country tentatively reopens

The Ministry of Health documented 13,972 more coronavirus infections in Vietnam on Tuesday, along with 14,624 recoveries and 197 mortalities. The latest cases, including six imported and 13,966 domestic transmissions, were recorded in 62 provinces and cities, the ministry said, noting that 7,549 patients got infected in the community. Ho Chi Minh City reported 1,497 of the latest infections, Can Tho City 981, Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province 860, Tay Ninh Province 727, Soc Trang Province 714, Binh Duong Province 626, Binh Thuan Province 592, Dong Nai Province 514, Hanoi 367, Khanh Hoa Province 350, Lam Dong Province 219, Hai Phong City 154, Thua Thien-Hue Province 119, Da Nang 75, Quang Nam Province 47, and Quang Ninh Province 33. Vietnam had detected 13,758 locally-acquired infections on Monday. The country has confirmed 1,232,852 community transmissions in all its 63 provinces and cities since the fourth virus wave erupted on April 27. A total of 986,531 of them have recovered from … [Read more...] about Vietnam reports 13,972 new COVID-19 cases, 197 fatalities