Vietnam welcomes over 7.2 million foreign visitors in 11 months
16/12/14
Foreigners in Vietnam
Vietnam
received more than 7.2 million foreign tourists the first 11 months of
this year, a 5.4 percent increase over the same period last year.
Hong
Kong (China) topped the list of countries in the number of visitors to
Vietnam, with a surge of 161.2 percent, followed by Germany (151.3
percent) and Russia (125.2 percent).
Especially,
the country witnessed a sudden rise in the number of arrivals from
Russia, with nearly 50,900 people in November, up 340 percent against
the previous month.
The
figure is expected to continue growing in the time to come as many
Russian travel agencies already booked tours to Vietnam, especially the
southern central region and Phu Quoc Island in the south, by next April.
During the 11-month period, the tourism sector served 36.4 million domestic tourists, up 8.9 percent year-on-year.
Last
year, Vietnam received 7.5 million international tourists, a 10.6
percent rise over 2012, contributing 200 trillion VND (9.4 billion USD)
to the State budget, or accounting for approximately 6 percent of the
country's GDP.
The country expects to welcome 8 million foreign and 37.5 million domestic tourists by the end of this year.
Source: VNA
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