Foreign visitors at a tourism destination in Thua Thien - Hue province (Source: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – The tourism sector has set the goal ofattracting 20.5 million international visitors in 2020 and serving 90 milliondomestic travellers, it was said at a review meeting of the Vietnam NationalAdministration of Tourism (VNAT) in Hanoi on December 23.
The VNAT reported that an estimated 18 million foreign visitors came toVietnam in 2019, up more than 16 percent from the figure of 2018.
The number of domestic travellers also rose by 6 percent to 85 million.
In total, the tourism sector earned more than 720 trillion VND (nearly16.7 billion USD), an increase of 16 percent on a yearly basis.
The average growth of tourists in the three consecutive years from 2016was 22 percent a year, putting Vietnam among the 10 countries with highesttourism growth in the world.
Next year, Vietnam will host a number of major events that are expectedto draw tourists, including the Formula 1 Vietnam Grand Prix and the NationalTourism Year 2020./.
VNA
