Illustrative photo (Source: VNA) Talking to a reporter from the Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper, KeithTan, Chief Executive Officer at the Singapore Tourism Board (STB), said the number ofVietnamese tourists to Singapore is surging and ranked fifth among the international arrivals in the country after Indonesia, India, Australia, andMalaysia.
The ranking is the highest ever achieved by Vietnam so far,he added.
Tan attributed the growth of Vietnamese visitors to thereopening of up to 90% of the air routes between the nations compared to thetime before the COVID-19 pandemic. On these routes, about 128 flights areoperated weekly.
The STB will coordinate with other competent agencies to minimise the compulsory procedures for entries into Singapore, he said.
In 2019, about 600,000 Vietnamese visited the island nation./.
VNA
