International tourist arrivals in Viet Nam broke the 9.44 million mark for January-September, representing a 28.4 per cent rise over the same period last year, the General Statistics Office said.
The Viet Nam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) expects tourist
arrivals from five western European countries to increase by 50 per cent
in the next three years as visa exemption norms kicked in this month.
Viet Nam''s first three-in-one tourism promotion initiative can be a
model that other localities can emulate successfully, a senior industry
official said yesterday.
Foreign tourist arrivals in the first half of this year reached 3.5
million, an increase of 2.6 per cent over the same period last year. HCM City continued to be the favourite destination in the first half,
luring over 1.9 million tourists,...