The average hotel price shown for SHV on the list ($99) makes this list hardly credible for me. LINK: http://news.yahoo.com/vietnamese-seasid ... 00471.html "A Buddhist beach sanctuary between Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam has been named the top rising destination of 2015 by TripAdvisor, in a new list that features unheralded travel hotspots.

Topping the list is Da Nang, Vietnam, which saw the greatest increase in positive feedback and interest from the TripAdvisor community, year-over-year.

Above and beyond its luxury hotel-lined beaches, the city is renowned for being a hotbed of Vietnamese cuisine with authentic local dishes like fish ball noodle soup, fried chicken wings in fish sauce.

TripAdvisor visitors also recommend Marble Mountains, a cluster of five limestone and marble hills with peaks, caves, tunnels and temples.

Here are the top 10 destinations on the rise in the world according to TripAdvisor:

1. Da Nang, Vietnam (Average nightly hotel rate1: $51)
2. Sihanoukville, Cambodia (Average nightly hotel rate: $99)
3. Limassol, Cyprus (Average nightly hotel rate: $146)
4. Ao Nang, Thailand (Average nightly hotel rate: $68)
5. Bodrum City, Turkey (Average nightly hotel rate: $128)
6. Naha, Japan (Average nightly hotel rate: $84)
7. Hurghada, Egypt (Average nightly hotel rate: $100)
8. Kazan, Russia (Average nightly hotel rate: $108)
9. Manaus, Brazil (Average nightly hotel rate: $93)
10. Eilat, Israel (Average nightly hotel rate: $290)

Danang for good reason. $35 gets you a fine room with a breathtaking view of a gorgeous beach in a top notch hotel. Been twice this year.

The beach looked kind of weird to me. Halfway between a California boardwalk and a deserted island... A weird middle ground. Saw absolutely no one swimming. Is it polluted, or does it have tons of jellyfish or something?

Calling it a "Buddhist beach sanctuary" further degrades the validity of this article. It's got a population close to a million. I thought the beaches were better around Hoi An myself.

Bitte_Kein_Lexus wrote:The beach looked kind of weird to me. Halfway between a California boardwalk and a deserted island... A weird middle ground. Saw absolutely no one swimming. Is it polluted, or does it have tons of jellyfish or something?

Swimming seems to be restricted to certain stretches with lifeguards. Those sections get crowded only getting toward sunset.





Coming from California I'm not much for playing around in tepid water without much wave action. Danang is big industrial city with issues of wastewater pollution. It looks nice (much nicer than Santa Monica) but water may not be the healthiest as

"The coast’s pollution “hot spots” include northern Quang Ninh Province, Hai Phong City, central Da Nang City, Quang Nam Province, and southern Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province."

The average hotel price shown for SHV on the list ($99) makes this list hardly credible for me. LINK: http://news.yahoo.com/vietnamese-seasid ... 00471.html "A Buddhist beach sanctuary between Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam has been named the top rising destination of 2015 by TripAdvisor, in a new list that features unheralded travel hotspots.

Very sujective list - doesn't say what position the places have risen from - if S'ville (for example) has risen from favorite destination number 5000 in the world to the 2OOOth spot, that's a huge "rise", but doesn't mean much in itself.

Also, if the hotel prices include places like Song Saa at $1500-5500 a night without VAT (or the helicopter!), that kind of screws the average. http://www.sihanoukvillebeachresorts.co ... sland.html

Interesting list anyway - how about Kazan, Russia ? Any takers ? (Just checked - it's in the Republic of Tatarstan.)
I call baloney
Or maybe a Russian Trip Advisor site ?

You have to take into account what the listing is actually based upon.

In this case, its the destinations which on Trip Advisor, have seen the biggest increases in positive/good reviews over the last 12 months. It doesn't matter where they were or now are in the actual rankings.

I visited Snooky for the 1st time in Feb 2014 for a week, & enjoyed it a lot, so much, I'm going back in Feb 2015 for 2 weeks. Its refreshingly cheap, compared to Thailand.

I'm not a young backpacker or a retired pensioner, just somewhere in between the two

The one thing Snooky needs to be a top tourist spot is to have the Vietnamese airline monopoly broken. Angkor Air is owned by Vietnam Air and they don't want to fly into Snooky. Vietnam Air flies over Snooky to their Vietnamese island and there to Singapore, but not to Snooky except for the couple of old noisy leased turboprops that Angkor Air flys. Airasia tried to fly to Snooky, but the puppets in PP made it expensive for them and they walked away. There are now charter flights from Korea and I have heard the Russian may start charter flights, but Airasia, Tiger, Bangkok Air or Jetstar need to fly to Snooky.

Four to five hours on a bus on the Highway-to-Hell (Hwy #4) with all the drunk/stoned container/beer truck drivers doesn't cut it for people with money that only have a couple weeks of vacation or the salaried man in Singapore with money to burn, loves to gamble and would throw money away in Snooky casinos if am airline flew from Singapore to Snooky. (weekend gambling get away.)