Foreign visitors to the central city of Da Nang by sea (Source: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) - The numberof foreign visitors to Vietnam in January isestimated to expand 16.6 percent month-on-month and 32.8 percent year-on-year, reaching1.99 million, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).
This marked the highest figure so far due to high travel demand for the traditionalLunar New Year (Tet) holiday.
Of the total, those travelling by air increased by 38.9 percent, while arrivalsby sea rose by 231.5 percent.
In January, tourists from Asia accounted for 77.4 percent of the total, 39.9percent higher than that of the same period last year. Arrivals from China surgedby 72.6 percent, while those from Thailand, the Republic of Korea, Taiwan, Japan,and Malaysia climbed 40.1 percent, 20.4 percent, 19.3 percent, 11.4 percent and5.5 percent, respectively.
The number of European visitors in the reviewed period witnessed a yearly increaseof 11.5 percent. Of which, those from Russia saw the highest rise of 16.1percent, followed by Germany, the UK and France with respective expansions of 9.6percent, 8.7 percent and 5.3 percent.
Meanwhile, the number of tourists from America was up 19percent year-on-year, mainly from the US, the GSO said.
Itadded that in the last days of January, Vietnamese travel agencies attended the InternationalTourism Fair (FITUR 2020) in Spain.
Vietnam’s participation at the event is hoped to actively contribute to attractingmore Spanish-speaking visitors to the Southeast Asian nation./.
VNA
