Hanoi attracts almost 1 million international tourists in 10 months

Nearly 983,000 international tourists have visited Hanoi between January and October (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – Hanoi has welcomed nearly 983,000 international tourist arrivals inthe first 10 months, almost reaching the target of 1 - 1.2 million for the whole of thisyear, the municipal Tourism Department said on October 26.

So far, 15.38million visitors have chosen the capital city as their destination, rising overfive-fold from the same period last year. That includes 14.4 million domesticarrivals, up nearly five-fold.

Tourismrevenue is estimated at 43.69 trillion VND (over 1.7 billion USD), increasing overfive times year on year.

InOctober alone, Hanoi has recorded about 1.51 million visitors, including 1.3million domestic ones and 212,760 foreigners, and earned some 3.97 trillion VNDfrom tourism, statistics show./.

VNA