Tourism festival to open in Danang

13:25' 14/06/2007 (GMT+7)

A beach in Danang VietNamNet Bridge - Danang – Sea Calling 2007 Festival will be held from June 15-19 with an array of impressive large-scale shows, including an opening ceremony on June 16 with a helicopter giving out colorful smoke and spreading a banner that reads Danang – Sea Calling 2007. According to Nguyen Dang Truong, Vice Director of the Danang Department of Tourism as well as Head of the 2007 festival organization committee, besides traditional games, there will also be modern ones to show a harmonious combination of folksiness and elegance, modernity and tradition. The festival will be held for 20 km along the Danang Beach. The key features will be a programme called Youth Gala with more than 5,000 participants including tourists from the Japanese cruise ship Peace; a beach parade titled Walking with Sea Lovers; a Vietnamese-Korean cultural exchange; a coastal cuisine festival; a beer bathing event; a fish-worshiping ceremony; beach sport games; air-ship flying, and others. To meet tourists’ demands during the festival, since June 1, Vietnam Airlines has increased it’s daily number of its flights between Danang and HCM City to 6, which is 60 % higher than usual. There has also been also a 30% increase in daily flights between Danang and Hanoi. (Source: NLD)