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International tourists to Vietnam soar in 10 months

Xinhua, October 28, 2016 Adjust font size:

More than 8 million international tourists are forecast to arrive in Vietnam in the first ten months of 2016, up 25.4 percent year on year, said the General Statistics Office (GSO) Friday.

Growth was seen in most markets, including China (up 55.2 percent year-on-year), the Republic of Korea (up 40.1 percent), New Zealand (up 35 percent), Thailand (up 30.8 percent), and the United States (up 14.2 percent) among others.

In October alone, Vietnam is likely to see some 812,000 foreign vacationers, up 23.3 percent against the same period last year.

The tourism sector grossed 331.5 trillion Vietnamese dong (14.4 billion U.S. dollars) in the 10-month period, a yearly increase of 19.1 percent, said GSO.

Vietnam aims to welcome 8.5 million foreign visitors and 60 million domestic travelers in 2016, pocketing a total of 370 trillion Vietnamese dong (16.8 billion U.S. dollars) in revenue. Endit