G eorgia Quinn is adamant that Vietnam has been slept on as a holiday destination. The lifestyle-based content creator says she has loved the country since she first visited as a backpacker 15 years ago. “It wasn’t off the beaten path but it definitely wasn’t as popular as, say, Thailand or Bali,” she says. That’s changing. “Everyone” Quinn has spoken to has either just returned to Australia from Vietnam or has plans to visit, she says. On her latest trip last month she was taken aback by how many new developments had sprung up in the coastal city of Da Nang. “It seems like that’s becoming … I’d almost call it like the Gold Coast of Vietnam,” she says. The number of Australians she bumped into during her two-week holiday also stood out: “It doesn’t surprise me at all that people are finally realising that it’s such an amazing place to go.” Australian Bureau of Statistics data shows that a decade ago Vietnam was the fifth most common south-east Asian destination for short-term overseas travel.…