Foreign tourist arrivals to Vietnam up over 42 percent
Vietnam welcomed over 15,000 foreign tourists in November, up 42.4 percent from the figure in October, the General Statistics Office announced on November 29.
The rise is attributed to the Government’s decision to allow a pilot programme to welcome back international tourists.
The travelers joined package tours and entered Vietnam via either charter flights or international commercial flights to designated places and tourism facilities such as Phu Quoc (Kien Giang), Khanh Hoa, and Quang Nam, among others.
According to the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism, in the first 11 months of this year, the number of foreign tourist arrivals to Vietnam was 140,100, down over 96 percent year-on-year.
Of the total, the number of visitors arriving by air accounted for around 69 percent, down 97 percent while those by road accounted for 30 percent, down 9 percent./.
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