People visit the Can Tho city flower street on its opening day during the week-long Tet holiday. (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – Tourism incentral and southern regions have reaped the benefits of the week-long LunarNew Year holiday (February 14 - 20), reporting an impressive surge in thenumber of visitors.
In the seven-day period, the Hue Complex ofMonuments, a World Cultural Heritage site and famous tourist destination in thecentral province of Thua Thien – Hue, welcomed 117,000 visitors, including47,000 foreigners. The total number of tourists to the site saw an increase ofnearly 50 percent from the same period last year. The site offered freeentrance to visitors on the first three days of the lunar year (February16-18).
The Da Nang Tourism Department said thecentral coastal city served closed to 300,000 tourist arrivals during Tet, up14 percent from 2017. The number of international visitors amounted to over132,000, increasing 14 percent year-on-year, while the figures for domesticvisitors were 164,893 and 5 percent, respectively.
The Mekong Delta city of Can Tho,meanwhile, received 700,000 tourists, 10 percent higher than last year,according to its Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
Le Minh Son, the department’s deputydirector, said more than 99,000 people came to the city on an average dailybasis.
The city’s tourism revenues during theholiday topped 75.8 billion VND (3.3 million USD), up 10 percent from lastyear.
Within just five day of Tet (February16-20), over 1 million people flocked to the southeast region (excluding thenumber of visitors to the local Vung Tau beach during the period). Binh Duongprovince announced that its popular Dai Nam tourism site attracted nearly150,000 tourists during the period, a seven-fold increase compared to normaldays. Dong Nai province highlighted the number of more than 100,000 arrivalsper day recorded in the local Buu Long tourism site; the figure represented anannual growth of 30 percent. Tay Ninh province, home to the popular spiritualtourism destination of Ba Den, also posted a 5 percent increase in the numberof visitors, at over 100,000 visitors per day.-VNA
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