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Vietnam's foreign arrivals bouncing back after drop in 13 months

Xinhua, July 29, 2015 Adjust font size:

Vietnam is expected to welcome some 593,500 person-times of international tourists in July 2015, up 12. 1 percent compared with the previous month and up 5.1 percent year- on-year, said Vietnam's General Statistics Office (GSO) on Wednesday.

The figure is the first increase in the number of foreign arrivals to the country after the 13th consecutive monthly drop since mid-May 2014.

In mid-May 2014, a series of riots hit foreign companies in southern and central Vietnam, leaving four Chinese nationals dead, around 20 foreign factories burned down and some 1,100 foreign companies affected.

In the first seven months of 2015, Vietnam is estimated to receive over 4.398 million person-times of international tourists, down 9.4 percent year-on-year, said GSO on its July statistics information report.

The country's tourism experienced growth in 10 markets including South Korea (up 35.5 percent year-on-year), Finland (up 15.8 percent), Singapore (up 13.4 percent), Spain (up 6.4 percent), Italy (up 5.7 percent), the United States (up 5.6 percent), China' s Taiwan (up 3.8 percent), Germany (up 1.4 percent), Japan (up 1.2 percent) and the Netherlands (up 0.8 percent).

Meanwhile, during seven-month period, Vietnam sees falls in number of tourists from Cambodia (down 43.9 percent year-on-year), Laos (down 36.1 percent), Thailand (down 31.2 percent), China's mainland (down 24.4 percent) and China's Hong Kong (down 14.7 percent) among others. Endi