• Danang expects thriving tourism year in 2012 

The Russian delegation came to have a final check on tourism services in Danang City and Hoi An before bringing Russian tourists by air to central Vietnam.

The first flight scheduled for May 12 will bring 300 Russian tourists to Danang, to be followed by one flight each day until September.

The Danang City Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism said the city welcomed 850,000 visitors in the first four months of this year (up by 13 percent against the same period in 2011), of whom 25 percent were foreign tourists coming mainly from Japan and the Republic of Korea.