Number of foreign tourists to Vietnam increases in July

Number of foreign tourists to Vietnam increases in July

Vietnam welcomed 593,566 international tourists in July.

NDO – Vietnam welcomed 593,566 international tourists in July, an increase of 12.1% over the last month and a year-on-year rise of 5.1%, announced the General Statistics Office.

The number of foreign visitors to Vietnam in the first seven months of this year is estimated at nearly 4.4 million, down by 9.4% from the same period last year.

The inflow of visitors from the Republic of Korea (RoK) recorded the highest increase at 35.5%. This was followed by Finland (155.8%), Singapore (13.4%), Spain (6.4%), Italy (5.7%), the United States (5.6%), China’s Taiwan (3.8%) and Germany (1.4%).

During the first seven months of the year, Vietnam’s tourism sector also served 43.1 million domestic tourists, earning a total revenue of VND214.371 trillion, up 1.5% compared to the same period last year.

Currently, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism is collaborating with relevant agencies and localities to actively launch and implement tourism stimulus programmes to attract more tourists from five Western Europe countries (Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Italy) and Belarus to Vietnam.

Under the programme, the tourism sector will offer new services at a 20-30% discount in price as well as encourage localities and enterprises to build appropriate products, including those connecting nations aiming to attract tourists visiting many surrounding countries.

The programme is expected to contribute to promoting the increase in tourism from the Western Europe market and Belarus from the beginning of 2016.

The country’s sector also set a target of attracting 1.1 million visitors from Western Europe countries during the 2016-2018 period, a rise of 50% over this year.

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