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In the first four months of the year, the number of foreign tourists to Vietnam reached over 1.9 million, representing a year-on-year increase of 10.5 per cent.
Despite the recent earthquake and tsunami, Japanese visitors to Vietnam still numbered 177,000, up 21 per cent.
Vietnam also saw remarkable increases in the numbers of tourists from China with 20.4 percent; the US, 6.8 per cent; the Republic of Korea, 6.6 per cent; France, 6.3 per cent; and Australia, 5.7 per cent.
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