Travel agents report record half-year figures

The tourism industry has earned VND62 trillion ($3.038 billion) from providing services for almost 2.97 million international tourists and 17.5 million local holidaymakers in the first half of 2011. Nguyen Van Tuan, general director of Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT), attributed the all-time high in both the number of clients and revenues to the [...]

Vietnam attracts nearly 3 million foreign tourists in six months

Nearly 3  million foreign tourist arrivals visited Vietnam in the first six months of 2011, a year-on-year increase of 18.1 per cent, reported the Vietnam General Statistics Office. Over the past six months, tourists visiting Vietnam for travel and recreation reached more than 1.77 million, a year-on-year increase of 11.2 per cent, while more than [...]

International visitors to Vietnam for work purpose down in Jan-May

The total number of international visitors to Vietnam in the first five months of this year increased 18%, but the total number of arrivals for work purpose saw a fall, General Statistics Office (GSO) reported. According to the figure from GSO, in Jan-May, Vietnam has attracted 2.5 million international tourists, rising 18% from the same [...]

Foreign tourist arrivals continue to rise

More than 460,000 international visitors travelled to Viet Nam in April, a 6.3 per cent rise against the same month last year, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO). This brought the total number of foreign arrivals during the first four months of the year to more than 1.9 million, a year-on-year increase of 10.5 [...]

Foreign tourists increase in February

Viet Nam welcome nearly 543,000 foreign tourists in February, a year-on-year increase of 21.6 per cent, reported the General Statistics Office (GSO). The number pushed up the total number of foreign tourists in the first two months of the year to more than 1 million, up by 19.5 per cent in comparison with the same [...]

Foreign visitors to Vietnam rise sharply during Tet

The Noi Bai International Airport received over 1,000 foreign holidaymakers during the first three days of the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival, according to the airport’s Border Customs Agency. Travelers were mostly from Europe and overseas Vietnamese who visited their homeland for the Tet holiday. On the occasion, the airport’s 82 flights brought nearly 8,000 [...]

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