Chinese tourists top list of foreign arrivals to Vietnam
VOV.VN - China took the lead in the numbers of foreign arrivals to Vietnam with more than 4 million visitors last year, accounting for 31% of the total number of foreign tourists, according to the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism.
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Of this figure, the number of foreign visitors travelling by air jumped by 32.1% to 10.9 million, while tourists arriving by road surged by 19.5% to 1.8 million, however, visitors travelling by sea dropped by 9.1% to 258,800.
In terms of markets, visitors from Asia increased by 34.4% to more than 9.7 million, while tourist arrivals from the EU grew by 16.6% to 1,885,670, America (up 11.1% to 817,003), Australia (up 14.3% to 420,906), and Africa (up 25.6% to 35,881).
