More than 5.2 million international tourists travelled to Viet Nam in the first 5 months of 2017, an increase of 29.6% when compared to the same period last year, according to the General Statistics Office.

Over 5.2 million international tourists travelled to Viet Nam in the first 5 months of 2017

Viet Nam’s major tourism markets saw impressive growth. In particular, growth from Asian countries reached 3.82 million visitors, up 34.4% compared to the same period last year.

China took the lead with more than 1.5 million visitors, marking a year-on-year increase of 55%.
In addition, Viet Nam saw a surge in the number of visitors from Russia by 52.8%, the Republic of Korea by 40%, Hong Kong (China) by 31%, Cambodia by 30% and Spain by 29%.

In May alone, Viet Nam welcomed 972, 844 tourists, up 26.8% compared to the same period last year.

The number of foreign arrivals who came via air was 847,525, while 5,996 arrived via sea and 119,323 million arrived over land.

(Source: NDO)