July alone saw over one million foreign arrivals – the first month in the year to accomplish this feat and 6.5 per cent higher than the previous month.
Civil Aviation Authority of Viet Nam reported that the number of passengers through airports nationwide reached 2.88 million passengers this month, down 70 per cent compared to the same period last year.
The number of people coming to Viet Nam combining business with tourism has increased significantly in recent times, and is one of the reasons for arrival numbers to jump in recent years.
The central city of Da Nang welcomed 328,810 visitors during the nine-day Lunar New Year (Tet holiday) festival 2019 (February 2-10), a year-on-year increase of 10.7 per cent according to the municipal Department of Tourism.
Based on its 2017 success, HCM City aims to attract between seven to eight million international visitors and a whopping 29 million domestic visitors in 2018.
The number of international visitors to Viet Nam in the first 10 months of 2017 was estimated at 10.47 million, marking a year-on-year surge of 28.1 per cent.
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 country has seen an estimated 6.2 million international visitors in the first half of this year, up 30.2 per cent year-on-year, the General Statistics Office (GSO) reported.
The number of international visitors to Viet Nam in the first four months of this year was estimated at 4.28 million, representing a year-on-year surge of 30.3 per cent.
About 2.45 million international visitors arrived in Viet Nam, 19.9 per
cent higher than the same period of last year, reported from the General
Statistics Office (GSO).