Cruise passengers visit Hoi An

Some 2,000 cruise tourists from Germany, Italy, Spain, UK and other European countries enjoyed the new year celebrations in the city of Hoi An on December 31. After Hoi An, the tour operator Saigontourist Travel Service Co took the tourists who disembarked from the cruise ship Costa Classica at Tien Sa Port earlier that day to Marble Mountain and other tourist sites in Da Nang. They also visited historical and cultural sites in the central city of Hue. Saigontourist said in 2009 the company organised domestic tours for some 75,000 tourists on cruises which paid calls to ports in HCM City, Da Nang and Ha Long.