Group aims to stop tourist pests

The Department of Culture, Tourism and Sports of Danang city has set up a seven-member group aimed at stopping vendors disturbing tourists.
These people are selected from the city’s task force and voluntary forces. The group will patrol tourist sites and the city’s centre to prevent and punish people who disturb tourists by begging them to buy their tourist products and services.
Disturbers will be fined from 60,000 to 100,000 dong if they are detected to have been aggressive or offensive against tourists at public sites. Those who repeat these actions will be fined between one and two million dong.
Nguyen Thi Chau Loan from the Danang Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism said that this group has only seven members but will cooperate with the ten-member tourist assistant team of Hai Chau district and Danang police force to protect tourists.
Loan said there are 15-20 dogged people who often disturb tourists in the city’s centre. They have several times threatened the Danang Tourism Ambassador Team and the Tourist Assistance Team of Hai Chau district when team members had prevented them from