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The number of foreign tourists who visited this city in August increased to 309,587, or 7 per cent more than in the same month last year.— Photo petrotimes
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HCM CITY (Biz Hub) — The number of foreign tourists who visited this city in August increased to 309,587, or 7 per cent more than in the same month last year.
Figures from the city government also showed that of the total number of tourists in August, those traveling by air reached 247,108, or 6 per cent more than that of same month last year.
In the first eight months of 2014, the total number of tourists who visited the city was estimated at 2.7 million, a 10 per cent increase compared with that of the same period last year.
City revenue from tourism totalled VND60,253 billion (US$2.8 billion), a 10 per cent increase from that of the same period last year. — VNS