Foreign arrivals up 27% in 4 months
(VOV) - Foreign arrivals to Vietnam in the first four months of this year are estimated to hit 3.1 million, a year-on-year increase of 27.3%, according to the General Statistics Office.
Air travelers were 2.5 million, up 23.5%, while those travelling by road recorded 584,500 people (up 68%) and by sea with 34,500, down 56.1%.
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The number of visitors going on holiday reached 1.9 million people (up 25.3%), those going on business were 516,900 (up 27.2%) and those coming to Vietnam to visit relatives were 534,100 (up 33.1%).
Visitors from most countries and territories went up from the previous year-China (up 46.9%), the Republic of Korea (6.7%), Japan (8.5%), the US (6.7%), Russia (7.4%), Taiwan (24.3%), Cambodia (32.2%), Australia (7.5%) and Malaysia (15.8%).