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Foreign visitors to Hanoi rise at Lunar New Year

The number of tourists travelling through Hanoi’s Noi Bai International Airport increased over the Lunar New Year holiday, announced the airport’s customs department on February 2.
Foreign visitors to Hanoi rise at Lunar New Year ảnh 1Tourists visit Hanoi's Old Quarter (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – The numberof tourists travelling through Hanoi’s Noi Bai International Airport increased overthe Lunar New Year holiday, announced the airport’s customs department onFebruary 2.

More than 1,200 flights ran duringthe holiday, carrying more than 11,000 passengers. Import-export turnoverthrough the airport in the period was at about 17.5 million USD.

Up to 604 flights to Noi Bai airportwere seen during January 26 to February 1, bringing 48,886 internationalvisitors to the capital city, mainly from European countries, China, and Japan.

Meanwhile, there were 613 flightswith 62,697 passengers from Noi Bai airport to other countries and territories.

Noi Bai airport’s customs departmentsaid it handled immigration procedures for over 5.5 million passengers on 47,273flights in 2016. Total import-export turnover hit 26 billion USD last year,with 9 billion USD from exports and 17 billion USD from imports.

The department will continue tocreate favourable conditions for import-export activities in 2017 with customsreforms, particularly the e-customs procedures for aircraft, and theimplementation of the ASEAN single window system at Noi Bai airport.-VNA

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