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Hanoi welcomes over 2.4 million tourists in January

Hanoi received more than 2.4 million tourists in January, a year-on-year increase of 10.4 percent, according to the municipal Department of Tourism.
Hanoi welcomes over 2.4 million tourists in January ảnh 1Foreign visitors take photos of a train in Hanoi. The railway running through some residential areas has become a tourist attraction in the city (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) - Hanoi received more than 2.4 million tourists inJanuary, a year-on-year increase of 10.4 percent, according to the municipal Department of Tourism.

Of the figure, international arrivals to the capital city reached nearly634,000, up 16 percent compared to the same period last year. Those who stayedovernight in the city numbered 445,000, mainly from the Republic of Korea,China and Japan, according to local accommodation service providers.

Meanwhile, domestic holidaymakers amounted to 1.7 million, an increase of 8.5 percent.

Total tourism revenue was estimated to surge 34.2 percent year on year to 8.89trillion VND (383.3 million USD).

Hanoi welcomed 5.74 million foreign visitors in 2018, up 16 percent against2017, among 26 million tourists spending time in the city.

Last year, the city was ranked 12th among the 25 best global destinations,and one of the two cities in Vietnam to enter the most prominent group in theworld in terms of room reservation.

It was nominated by the World Travel Awards as one of the 17 candidatesfor a prize of the world’s leading city destination 2018.

Hanoi’s key tourism markets include China, the Republic of Korea, Japan,France, the US, the UK, Germany, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Canada. 

Popular destinations in the city can be named as the Mausoleum of President HoChi Minh, the Temple of Literature and National University (Van Mieu – Quoc TuGiam), the Hanoi Old Quarter, Thang Long Imperial Citadel, Hoan Kiem Lake andNgoc Son Temple.

The city aims to greet 6.7 million foreign visitors out of nearly 28.6million tourists in 2019.-VNA
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