(TAN): After more than a two-month lockdown starting July to combat the Covid-19 pandemic, Danang’s tourism department welcomed the first group of domestic tourists on October 4, reported TTRW.
The Vietnam government portal said officials presented gifts to the first tourists who arrived on a flight from Hanoi.
The 55-strong group, having had originally booked the trip in August but had to postpone the trip following the outbreak in a hospital in Danang that spread districts across the central region of the country by late July.
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Deputy director of the Danang Tourism Promotion Centre, Mai Thi Thanh Hai, said that welcoming tourists to Danang was a significant step towards welcoming back tourists.
At present, 447 hotels have resume their operations and 11 out of the 16 tourist sites reopened doors to visitors, the Vietnam News Agency reported.
Vietnam remains closed to international tourists but can tap a substantial domestic travel market.
