A golf course built in the Ba Na Hills area in the central city of Da Nang. A new $50 million tourism property golf course project will add to the booming golf resorts and tourism projects that will be developed along 30km of pristine beach from Da Nang to Hoi An in the coming decades.— Photo courtesy Ba Na Hills Golf course
Da Nang’s People’s Committee has approved plans for a 36-hole golf course by property developer VinaCapital Group.
The city’s planning and investment department said the golf course will cover 22ha in Ngu Hanh Son district with an estimated investment of VND1.168 trillion (US$50.8 million).
It said the golf and tourism project will include 500-room, four-star hotels and villas, a tourism village and entertainment centres.
The department said the project would add to the booming golf resorts and tourism projects that will be developed along 30km of pristine beach from Da Nang to Hoi An in the coming decades.
The $50 million project would make part of a series of golf and real estate projects Vinacapital has built along the coast.
According to a report from the city, VinaCapital Group had introduced the $30 million residential beachfront Ocean Estates project within the beachfront parcel of the Ocean Resort, the largest resort complex in the central region.
The group has developed a chain of beach resorts such as the Dunes, the Ocean Villas, Norman Estates and the Dune Residence in Ngu Hanh Son district since late 2009.
The city said Vinacapital has invested $200 million in beach resorts, golf courses and apartment complexes in Da Nang.
At a conference in the city last year, seven golf course in central Viet Nam agreed to join together to form a new golf-specific marketing group – the Viet Nam Golf Coast – extending from the up-and-coming city of Da Nang to the foothills of Hue and shores of Hoi An.
Da Nang alone earned $68 million per year from golf tourism, and the city expects to increase the figure to $186 million in the coming years when more golf courses open.
According to the International Association of Golf Tour Operators, 169 golf tourism companies operating in Asia plan to expand into Viet Nam.
The International Association of Golf Tour Operators in co-operation with Da Nang’s Tourism department has built a strategy to develop golf tourism for Da Nang in 2017-22.
Da Nang and neighbouring provinces of Quang Nam and Thua Thien-Hue are popular sites in central Viet Nam, with beautiful golf courses designed by Nick Faldo, Greg Norman, Collin Montgomerie and Luke Donald. — VNS