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Da Nang, Vietnam Plans for Smart City Development
Vietnam’s central city of Da Nang announced that its smart city project is a key driver of socio-economic development in the future, in addition to a transition to technology-based city management.
According to media reports, the statement was made by Da Nang’s Chairman, Huynh Duc Tho, at the Smart City Summit 2019, which took place in the city on October 23. He said that Da Nang already approved a smart city development plan for 2018-2025 and expects it to be completed around 2030. The city mayor added that the Summit is a good opportunity for the city’s agencies and domestic and foreign experts to discuss the models, solutions, technologies, and policies to successfully build a smart city.
In addition to Da Nang’s development plan, the participants at the summit reported on smart city trends in ASEAN, Malaysia’s experience in smart city building, and public-private partnership in smart city building.
There was also an in-depth discussion session on leaders’ visions in smart city development and the core components of building, developing, and operating a smart city.

Vietjet Air Increases Flights Between Da Nang And Other Nationwide Destinations
The low-cost airline has increased its services on Da Nang- Ho Chi Minh City route to 4 daily round-trip flights, and on Da Nang-Ha Noi route with 3 daily flights, starting from 13 September. The carrier has planned to increase the number of flights on the two routes to 7 and 10 respectively from early October.
Vietjet Air has also resumed some domestic routes connecting Da Nang with other nationwide locations.
In detail, the carrier operates one daily round-trip flight between Da Nang and Hai Phong City, and 5 round-trip flights weekly between Da Nang and Da Lat City.
Also, it offers 4 round-trip flights per week between Da Nang and Buon Ma Thuot, Can Tho and Nha Trang.
Vietjet Air has lifted restrictions on seat distancing adopted for its domestic flights departing from Da Nang after obtaining permission from the Ministry of Transport and the Civil Aviation Authority of Viet Nam.
Source: DA NANG Today

Da Nang Develops Smart Tourism Solutions To Drive Post-Pandemic Recovery
Over recent years, Da Nang has prioritised developing smart tourism, which can be simply understood as a kind of tourism that applies information technology to regular tourism activities. In the face of hard times triggered by coronavirus, smart tourism is believed to be an inevitable trend in the ‘smokeless industry’ in a bid to effectively marketing the city’s products and services.
According to CEO of the Songhan Incubator (SHi) Ly Dinh Quan, a number of apps such as IoT (Internet of things) create connections in the process of smart travel deployment, help to establish closer links between tour operators, functional management agencies and tourists, with transparent and interconnected information.In his perspectives, Chairman of the Da Nang Tourism Association Cao Tri Dung underlined a need for tour operators and travel agents in Da Nang to promote the use of social media, online travel booking platforms, as well as seek out new technology approaches to bring their products closer to tourists.
Photo: Nguyễn Trung Thu
Source: DA NANG Today

The Picture Of Golden Bridge Won At The Architecture 2020
The winning photo by Vietnamese photographer Tran Tuan Viet has been receiving the highest votes on Agora App. Golden Bridge is the renowned construction located on Ba Na Hills (Da Nang), which hovers virtually over 1.400 meters above sea level. The bridge is held by two giant cement hands and divided into 8 spans (the longest span is up to 20 meters) with a total length of 148.6 meters.
Source: danangfantasticity.com

Steam Locomotives Will Operate On The Hue – Da Nang Railway
On May 21, Deputy Minister of Transport Nguyen Ngoc Dong said that the Ministry agreed to allow the steam locomotives to operate on the railway section of Hue – Da Nang. The functional units will work with the investor to lease railway infrastructure and prepare a train operation plan.
A couple of steam locomotives mainly serve tourists, running daily from Lang Co station (Thua Thien Hue) – Da Nang station. This train has VIP seat carriages, sightseeing wagons and restaurants, power generation wagons and kitchens. The wagons are all newly built at Di An Railway Plant.
The train will run through Hai Van pass, the most beautiful route of the North-South railway with sections running around the pass, railway bridges and tunnels built by the French.
This type of locomotive was popularly applied in the world from the 19th century to the middle of the 20th century. The Vietnamese railway industry gradually replaced steam locomotives with electric and diesel locomotives in the 1990s.
Source: danangfantasticity.com

Free Entrance To Marble Mountains And Museums From June 1 To August 31, 2020
Based on the Statement of the People’s Committee of Da Nang City, at the 14th (extraordinary) meeting this morning (May 22), Da Nang City People’s Council agreed to waive the fee for visiting the Marble Mountains, other cultural buildings and museum of the city including Museum of Cham sculpture, Museum of Danang and Da Nang Fine Arts Museum for domestic and foreign tourists.
Ms. Truong Thi Hong Hanh, Director of the Danang Department of Tourism shared: “The purpose of the free entrance to the Marble Mountains, cultural sites and museums in Da Nang area is to raise tourist arrivals and subsequently boost the city’s socio-economic development; meanwhile, create a competitive product package for regional destinations; thereby stimulating travel businesses to build products to bring tourists to Da Nang; indirectly support and relieve difficulties for service enterprises, tourism and auxiliary businesses in the tourism industry (such as trade and transportation …). “
The period of application is 3 months, from June 1 to August 31, 2020.

Da Nang Tourism Promoted On BBC In June
VGP – BBC World News will broadcast a video on tourism in the central city of Da Nang on its Asia-Pacific channel.
The Da Nang Tourism Promotion Centre and BBC News’ Global Book Corporation reached an agreement on tourism promotion on June 10.
Accordingly, BBC will daily broadcast 30-second videos featuring the land and people of Da Nang within one month.
The videos will be shown for a total of 98 times at rush hours including 6:00AM -9:30 AM; 9:30AM – 5:00PM; 5:00 PM-7:00 AM; and 7:00 AM to 12:00 PM.
Earlier, Da Nang has deployed a string of measures to stimulate tourism demands and strive for 2.4 million travelers in the second half of this year.
Source: danang.gov.vn

Vietjet Launches 8 New Routes Simultaneously, Kicking Off The ‘Hot’ Summer
With 5 out of 8 new routes to the most livable city in Vietnam, Da Nang has become the largest hub in the Central region with 10 flight routes to cities and provinces across the country, opening more opportunities for heritage tourism paths in the Central region, boosting the economic development of the Central Vietnam – Central Highlands…
Routes from Danang to Da Lat / Phu Quoc / Vinh, Hanoi – Dong Hoi, Hai Phong – Quy Nhon are operated daily. The Vinh – Phu Quoc route is scheduled 5 times / week on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays. The Danang – Buon Ma Thuot route is operated 4 times / week on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. The Danang – Thanh Hoa route is activated 3 times / week on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Diversified and flexible flight schedules will certainly meet the travel needs of millions of people and travelers across the country.
As an airline for people and tourists, Vietjet constantly launches many new routes to bring more opportunities to air travel at a reasonable price. With the spirit of “Safe – Fun – Affordable – Punctual”, Vietjet is proud to bring passengers exciting experiences on new aircraft with soft leather seats, 9 delicious hot and fresh dishes, beautiful and friendly flight attendants as well as many other modern utilities on e-commerce platform.
Source: danangfantasticity.com

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Nam O Fish Sauce Making Craft Recognized As National Intangible Cultural Heritage
Mr. Le Van Nghia, Vice Chairman of Lien Chieu district’s People’s Committee in Da Nang said the city approved a project on preservation of Nam O fish sauce making craft attached to tourism development in Da Nang. The project aims to make Nam O fish sauce a tourism product, boost local income, and develop Nam O fish sauce making village into a tourist attraction. Mr. Nghia said it is important to help local people to develop tourism and improve the quality of Nam O fish sauce: Nghia said: “This is the first time Vietnamese cuisine has been recognized as a national intangible cultural heritage. Local people are very proud of that. Da Nang plans to develop a project to revive Nam O fish sauce making village and promote Nam O fish sauce to other areas in Vietnam and the world”.
Source: VOV5.VN