Foreign arrivals up 21% in first half
VGP - Viet Nam welcomed 10.7 million foreign arrivals in the first half of this year, reported the National Statistics Office.
The figure marks a year-on-year increase of 21 percent and a rise of nearly 26 percent compared to the pre-Covid level.
During the first six months, China was the biggest tourist source market with 2.7 million, accounting for 25.6 percent of the total foreign arrivals to Viet Nam.
It was followed by South Korea with 2.2 million tourists, Taiwan (630,000), the U.S. (449,000); Japan (393,000) and Cambodia (360,000).
According to the May edition of the World Tourism Barometer published by the United Nations Tourism Organization (UN Tourism), in the first quarter of 2025, Viet Nam led the Asia-Pacific region in the growth of international tourist arrivals, with a 30 percent increase compared to the same period in 2024, and ranked second in terms of recovery in international arrivals, with a 34 percent rise compared to the first quarter of 2019.
Globally, in the first three months of 2025, Viet Nam ranked sixth in terms of international tourist arrival growth (up 30 percent compared to the same period in 2024) and placed fourth in total tourism revenue growth, with a year-on-year increase of 29 percent./.
