Nearly 1 million foreign arrivals visit Hanoi in first six months

Hanoi welcomed approximately 1 million foreign arrivals in the first half of the year, said Mai Tien Dung, Deputy Director of the capital city’s Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

Most of them came from China, Australia and Japan.

In the reviewed period, Vietnam received around 2.96 million foreign arrivals, a year-on-year increase of 18.1 percent, the General Statistics Office reported.

Nearly 1.77 million tourists came for a holiday (up 11.2 percent), about 493,000 for business purposes (down 1.7 percent), and 513,000 for visits to relatives (up 77.6 percent) over the same period last year.

Tourists coming by plane amounted to 2.5 million, 23.8 percent higher than last year’s figure, while visitors travelling by sea and land decreased by 15.2 and 4.5 percent, respectively. – VOV

Tags: Vietnam Tourism

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