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Cambodia expects to welcome some 5 million tourists by this end of 2016 as the number of visitors to the country has seen a sharp increase by approximately 2 million people during the last 4 months.

More than 8 million overseas tourists arrived in Vietnam in the first 10 months of 2016, up 25.4 percent against the same period last year.

Vietnam needs to increase its funding for promoting tourism to realise its target of doubling the figures for international tourists as well as revenue by 2020, according to Forbes.

Vietnam needs to invest more in tourism promotion work to keep up with regional countries, according to the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT).

Delegates reached solutions to develop tourism in the central province of Binh Dinh at a recent seminar held in Quy Nhơn City.

More than 805,000 visits were made to Vietnam by international tourists in January, a 5.8 percent increase from last month and 12.3 percent surge from the same month last year.

International visitors to Vietnam witnessed a modest year-on-year decrease of 0.2 percent to 7.94 million in 2015, the latest report from the General Statistics Office (GSO) reveals.

The number of international tourists to Vietnam bounced back in July with 593,566 arrivals, up 12.1 percent over the previous month and 5.1 percent against the same period last year.

The Mekong Delta received 7.3 million visitors in the first quarter of this year, an increase of 20.9 percent compared with the same period last year.