Viet Nam welcomed over 626,300 foreign visitors in September, up 8.3% from the same period last year.

The figure raised the number of foreign visitors to Viet Nam in the first 9 months of 2015 to over 5.68 million.

The country saw a dramatic rise in the number of tourists from the Republic of Korea, with 59.2%, while those from Hong Kong (China) grew by 17.3% and Singapore by 16.9%.

It faced visitor declines in several markets, including Cambodia with 43.5%, Thailand with 27.6%, Laos with 25.9% and China with 18.2%.

Foreign visitors on Da Nang’s Bach Dang pedestrian promenade

According to the Viet Nam National Administration of Tourism, the 9-month revenues from the tourism sector reached more than 269 trillion VND (12.22 billion USD), up 2.8% from the same period a year ago.