4.6m international visitors arrive in Vietnam in Jan-Nov

During the first 11 months this year, Vietnam has welcomed about 4.6 million international visitors, exceeding the year’s target of 4.2-4.5 million arrivals, according to the general Statistic Office (GSO).

In comparison with the same period last year, the figure increased up to 36.5%. Of which, the total number of foreign visitors coming to Vietnam for tourism and resort purposes was 2.85 million arrivals, up 42.3% year-on-year, while 932,000 others are for the business purpose, up 39.3% y-o-y and the tourists arriving in Vietnam for visiting their relatives increased 11% y-o-y, to 520,000 people.

Foreign visitors to Vietnam are mainly from China (833,000 tourists, up 76.7% y-o-y), and followed by Korea (450,000 people, rising 38% y-o-y), Japan (399,000 people, up 22.8%) and the US, Taiwan, Thailand and Cambodia. – TBKTVN

Tags: foreign tourists to Vietnam, Vietnam Tourism

Posted by VBN on Nov 30 2010. Filed under Tourism. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry