An overview of the Ba Na Hills Golf Club in Da Nang (Photo courtesy of Ba Na Hills Golf Club)
Da Nang (VNA) - The centralcity of Da Nang will host the Asia Pacific Golf Summit (APGS) on November 14,following the APEC Economic Leaders Week.
Vice Director of the city’s tourismdepartment Nguyen Xuan Binh said the golf summit would drawtogether developers, golf course owners and operators, club general managers,golf course superintendents and the golf trade from Asia Pacific membereconomies.
He said the Asia Pacific Inter-Club GolfTournament would be staged at the Da Nang Golf Resort on that day.
The event will be a fun-filled networkingopportunity for ASEAN member economies, including Vietnam.
This is the eleventh Asia Pacific GolfSummit. It will continue to provide a platform for debate on the opportunitiesfor the golf industry in the Asia Pacific.
Vietnam has 32 golf courses nationwide.Sixty others are planned, but golfers accounted for a mere half of one per centof the 10 million tourists visiting Vietnam in 2016.
At the sixth Asia Golf Tourism Convention(AGTC) in Da Nang last year, the city announced that it earned 68 million USD in2016 from golf tourism. It expects to increase this to 186 million USD in thenext five years when three more golf courses open.
According to the International Associationof Golf Tour Operators, 169 golf tourism companies operating in Asia plan toexpand into Vietnam.
The International Association of Golf TourOperators in cooperation with Da Nang’s Tourism department has built a strategyto develop golf tourism for Da Nang in 2017-22.
Da Nang and the neighbouring provinces of QuangNam and Thua Thien-Hue are popular sites in central Vietnam, with beautifulgolf courses designed by Nick Faldo, Greg Norman, Collin Montgomerie and LukeDonald.
Last year, the Ba Na Hills Golf Club in DaNang was named Best New Golf Course in Asia and the Pacific at the Asian GolfAwards of the Asian Golf Association, and was first runner-up as Best GolfCourse in Vietnam.
Participants can register to book seats atthe APGS on the link //secure.golfconference.org/event/asia-pacific-golf-summit-2017.-VNA
Laguna Lang Co, winner of the 2017 IAGTO golf resort of the year award, will be hosting its first-ever Faldo Series Asia Grand Final for young golfers from March 15-17.
Vietnam has been selected as the best golf destination in the Asia-Pacific region in the 2017 Asia Golf Awards on-line poll conducted by the Asia Golf Magazine.
The Vietnamese team will gather on June 26 in Ba Ria-Vung Tau, where they will train until July 14 before departing for Indonesia for the ASEAN U23 Championship 2025, which runs from July 15 to 29. Vietnam will face Laos on July 19 and Cambodia on July 22 in the group stage.
The exhibition showcases more than 100 valuable documents and artifacts, divided into two main parts: “Journalist Nguyen Ai Quoc – Ho Chi Minh” and “President Ho Chi Minh – Founder and Mentor of Vietnamese Revolutionary Press.” This is an opportunity to recall the late leader’s journalism journey and affirm his exceptional role in founding and guiding the revolutionary press in Vietnam.
For the first time, the World DanceSport Federation (WDSF) has granted Vietnam hosting rights for the two championships, including the Asian women’s solo category, which debuts this year as an officially recognised event.
Eight teams will join the tournament, divided into two groups. Group A features Vietnam, the Philippines, Sichuan Club (China), and Australia, while Group B consists of Vietnam U21, Korabelka Club (Russia), Taiwan (China), and U21 Thailand.
Despite strong home support and high expectations, Vietnam were unable to overcome the defending champions, who secured their third consecutive win over Vietnam in a regional final, following previous victories in 2014 and 2023.
The event, part of Vietnam’s cultural diplomacy strategy through 2030, was jointly organised by the Vietnamese Embassy in Venezuela and USM’s Faculty of International Relations. It attracted thousands of students from universities across Venezuela.
For the first time, Vietnamese audiences will have the opportunity to experience the ballet masterpiece "Don Quixote" in its original version by renowned choreographer Marius Petipa.
The contest carried deep meaning as it was the first time the life of Vietnamese women abroad had been highlighted as the central theme, said poet and writer Nguyen Quang Thieu, Chairman of the Vietnam Writers’ Association.
The event formed part of Vietnam’s ongoing campaign to seek UNESCO World Heritage status for the complex at the 47th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, scheduled to take place in Paris in July.
Creative cultural festivals are fast emerging as a new catalyst for tourism development in Vietnam, as localities increasingly invest in these vibrant events on a more systematic and larger scale.
This marks the first time Vietnam has hosted a continental-level Muay event which will feature competitions across 28 weight categories in combat and eight performance categories.
Coming to the Vietnamese booth, visitors had the chance to take part in a bamboo dance, a workshop on painting woven bamboo or rattan, or quizzes about Vietnam.
These are impressive achievements, not only showing the efforts and prowess of Vietnamese paddlers but also serving as proof of the sports sector’s strategic and systematic investment.
The cultural event in Canberra not only fostered cultural exchanges between Vietnam and Australia but also contributed to promoting Vietnam’s image internationally
The U23 competition will run from June 16 to 22, followed by the U17 event from June 23 to 28, while athletes competing in the U23 category will undergo weight and skill checks ahead of the matches starting June 18, while similar checks for U17 athletes will take place before June 23.
Vietnam continues to sit just behind continental powerhouses Japan, the Republic of Korea, Australia, China, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).
An overview of the Ba Na Hills Golf Club in Da Nang (Photo courtesy of Ba Na Hills Golf Club) 
