According to General Statistics Office of Vietnam, first 9 months 2018, international tourist arrivals up 22.9%
Some 11.61 million foreign tourists arrived in Vietnam in the first nine months of this year, a year-on-year increase of 22.9 per cent, according to the General Statistics Office.
Growth in the number of international tourist arrivals in the third quarter was 14.9 per cent against the same period last year; lower than the 30.9 per cent and 23.1 per cent, respectively, recorded in the first and second quarters.
The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) has conducted promotional activities in foreign markets during September, including in Canada and the US, where policies, destinations, tourism products and services were introduced in an effort to attract more tourists.
The US remains one of Vietnam’s top five tourism markets, reaching 614,000 in 2017, up 11 per cent against 2016. As at August this year, 486,000 tourists from the US had arrived in Vietnam, a year-on-year increase of 14.5 per cent.
Tourist arrivals from four other leading markets totaled 6,704,043 in the first eight months, including 3,402,308 from China, 2,286,714 from South Korea, 545,721 from Japan, and 469,300 from Taiwan (China).
Reporting by Linh Van on VNEconomictimes