Foreign arrivals to Vietnam jump to highest in 2016

Foreign arrivals to Vietnam jump to highest in 2016

The number of foreign arrivals saw a rise of 6.3% compared to July and a year-on-year increase of 34.4%.

The inflow of visitors from the Asian market recorded highest surge, with a 39.6% increase compared to the same period last year, followed by Europe with 24.7%, America with 13.8% and Africa with 12.4%.

The GSO reported that more than 6.4 million international tourists visited Vietnam in the first eight months, up 25.4% over the same period in 2015. Of the total, over 5.4 million came by air (up 28.5%) while nearly 99,000 arrived by sea and 914,000 arrived over land.

During the period, visitors from Asian countries totaled more than 4.6 million, a year-on-year increase of 30.8%. China and the Republic of Korea were Vietnam’s biggest market with a surge of nearly 58%, and over 37% against the same period last year, respectively.

The policy of visa exemptions for visitors of five western European countries – Britain, France, Germany, Spain and Italy – has contributed to increasing the number of tourists from the Europe to Vietnam. In the first eight months, the country received more than one million European visitors, up 15.5% over the same period of 2015.

Also during the period, the number of arrivals from America reached over 503,000, a year-on-year increase of 13%, of which 386,800 were from the United States (up 14.8%).

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