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Foreign arrivals down, revenue rises

Foreign arrivals in Vietnam slid 11.3 percent in the first half of this year to reach over 3.8 million due to the looming MERS-CoV threat and downfall from the struggling Russian market.

Foreign arrivals in Vietnam slid 11.3 percent in the first half of thisyear to reach over 3.8 million due to the looming MERS-CoV threat anddownfall from the struggling Russian market.

According to General Director of the Vietnam National Administrationof Tourism (VNAT) Nguyen Van Tuan, the number of inbound tourists isestimated at 40 million, generating 190 trillion VND (8.75 billion USD)in revenue, up 1.7 percent annually.

Since thetourism stimulus programme “Vietnamese people travel across Vietnam” waslaunched by the VNAT five months ago, domestic visitors to localitieswere on the rise, which offset earnings generated by foreign travellers,said Vietravel Hanoi’s inbound department head Pham Van Bay.

During the period, 2.2 million visitors arrived in the centralcoastal city of Da Nang, 1.6 million of them are Vietnamese,representing respective rises of 24.9 percent and 22 percent.-VNA

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