International tourists visit Hanoi capital city (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam greeted morethan 5.96 million international tourists in the first four months of 2019, ayear-on-year rise of 7.6 percent, according to the Vietnam NationalAdministration of Tourism under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
In April alone, the number of foreignholidaymakers was estimated at over 1.46 million, up 4.2 percent against March2019 and 9.5 percent against April 2018.
Growth was reported in most of the markets,including Thailand (up 46.5 percent), Indonesia (up 29.1 percent), Taiwan (up25 percent), the Philippines (up 24.4 percent), the Republic of Korea (up 23.2percent), Malaysia (up 15.7 percent), Denmark and Switzerland (up 12.1 percentboth), Norway (up 11 percent), and Italy (up 10.5 percent).
However, there were reductions in the number oftourists from Cambodia (down 45.4 percent), Laos (down 18.9 percent), Finland(down 10.5 percent), China (down 3.8 percent), and Australia (down 0.3percent).
The tourism sector will implement programmes topromote Vietnam’s tourism in key and potential markets such as China, theRepublic of Korea, ASEAN, Japan, and Europe.
Vietnam will also attend international tourism fairs such asthe Beijing International Tourism Expo in China, Hanatour in theRepublic of Korea, and World Travel Market in the UK.
During the reviewed time, the country served 31.5 million domestic vacationers.The tourism sector grossed over 227.7 trillion VND (9.8 billion USD) inrevenues, an annual increase of 8.91 percent.
Vietnam aims to serve about 18 million foreign visitors and85 million domestic ones in 2019, and earn more than 700 trillion VND (30.2billion USD) from tourism, according to the Ministry of Culture, Sports andTourism.-VNA
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