Over 2.4 mil int’l visitors to Vietnam in four months
(VOV) - Vietnam welcomed nearly 614,000 foreign visitors in April, bringing the total number of foreign arrivals to more than 2.4 million in the first four months, according to the General Statistics Office.
Of the total, 1.5 million arrived in the country for holiday, 407,000 for business purposes (down 5.4 percent), and 401,000 for visiting relatives (down 9.1 percent) and 120,000 for other purposes.
Vietnam’s major tourism markets saw impressive growth, including Russia (up 51 percent), Thailand (32.5 percent), Indonesia (26.4 percent), New Zealand (up 20.9 percent) and Malaysia (7.1 percent).