Paragliding festival offers tourists fresh experience in Nha Trang
A paragliding festival has taken place Nha Trang city, the central province of Khanh Hoa, an activity to help stimulate domestic tourism in the post-pandemic period.
A performance of powered paragliding at the festival in Nha Trang city (Photo: VNA)
Khanh Hoa (VNA) – A paragliding festival hastaken place Nha Trang city, the central province of Khanh Hoa, an activity tohelp stimulate domestic tourism in the post-pandemic period.
Addressing the opening ceremony on the beach of NhaTrang Bay on July 1, Do Van Tiep, Director of the Hon En Tourism and Adventure SportsCo. Ltd - the festival organiser, said he hopes the development of paraglidingin particular and adventure sports in general will help diversify high-endtourism products in Nha Trang, thus attracting new travellers and providing freshexperiences for existing ones.
Besides, the festival was also a chance for Nha Trangand Khanh Hoa to get established in the “paragliding map” of Vietnam and theworld, he noted.
The three-day event featured competitions along withpowered and non-powered paragliding with the participation of about 100 pilotsfrom clubs across Vietnam.
Tourists could also register to try paragliding withpilots, an opportunity for them to enjoy a bird’s eye view of the beauty of NhaTrang.
Cung Quynh Anh, Deputy Director of the Khanh Hoa TourismDepartment, expressed this hope that this new experience and many other summertourism activities to be held, the province will welcome more visitors andachieve growth targets./.
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A performance of powered paragliding at the festival in Nha Trang city (Photo: VNA) 
