More than 12.8 million foreign tourists have chosen Vietnam as their destination over the last 10 months, up 22.4 percent year on year, according to the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT).
Foreign
visitors to an exhibition at the Temple
of Literature in Hanoi (Photo: VNA)
The VNAT said on October 26 that the
country has welcomed over 1.2 million foreign visitors this month, rising 17.6
percent from a year earlier.
In the 10 months, it has seen increases in the numbers of tourists from most
markets, particularly the Republic of Korea (48.3 percent), Finland
(33.3 percent), China’s Hong
Kong (29.6 percent), China
(28.8 percent), and Denmark
(16.4 percent). Although Africa is not a major
market, the number of arrivals from this continent has risen by 19.7 percent.
Meanwhile, holidaymakers from Laos
have dropped by 15.7 percent and from Cambodia down 8.1 percent compared
to the same period last year.
Domestic travellers totalled 67.9 million between January and October, the VNAT
noted, adding that the sector earned 505 trillion VND (21.5 billion USD) from
tourists in total, up 21 percent.
VNAT General Director Nguyen Van Tuan said Vietnam aims to attract 15 – 16
million foreign arrivals in 2018. The fourth quarter is a peak season for
foreign tourists, so if the current growth rate is sustained and there aren’t
any sudden upheavals, the country will receive at least 15.7 million foreign
vacationers this year.
To attract more foreigners in the coming months, the VNAT has organised a
tourism promotion programme in Nanning and Shenzhen
cities of China
from October 22 to 27, he added.
In the national tourism development strategy until 2020, China is
considered a key source of tourists. It has continually ranked first among
sources of foreign travellers to the Southeast Asian nation, accounting for 38
percent of total foreigners visiting here.
Tuan said the VNAT has also coordinated with some agencies to launch a smart
tourism portal at
www.dulich.vtv.vnso as to provide
comprehensive information about Vietnam’s
tourism and help users gain better travel experiences in the era of the Fourth
Industrial Revolution. -
Source: VNA
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