Cruise liner Mariner of the Seas is among the ships carrying tourists to Vietnam recently (Photo: cruiseweb.com)Hanoi (VNA) – More than 16,640 foreign touristsvisited Vietnam by ship in November, Quan doi Nhan dan (People’s Army) dailyreported.
German cruise ship SuperStar Virgo carried 1,200visitors to Tien Sa port of central Da Nang city, 1,800 others to Hanoi and HaLong city, along with 1,100 vacationers to Phu My port in southern Ba Ria-VungTau province.
Up to 2,044 foreigners toured Vietnam afterGenting Dream docked Tan Cang-Cai Mep port of Ba Ria-Vung Tau. The Malaysianliner also brought 2,300 passengers to Tien Sa port and another 2,500 to HonGai port in northern Quang Ninh province last month.
Meanwhile, 4,100 tourists spent part of theirholiday in the Southeast Asian nation when Bahamas’s Ovation of the Seasvisited Chan May port of Thua Thien-Hue province.
The cruise ship passengers were among more than926,000 foreign tourists to Vietnam in November, rising by 14 percent from theprevious month and 25 percent from a year earlier, according to the GeneralStatistics Office.
More than 9 million foreigners visited Vietnamfrom January to November, up 25.4 percent compared to the same period of2015.
The number of foreign visitors who flew to thecountry reached 7.53 million, up 32 percent year on year. The number of thosearriving by sea dropped 11.4 percent to 139,000 while arrivals by road alsodeclined by 1.5 percent to 1.31 million.-VNA
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