Int’l arrivals in Vietnam continue rising

April 30, 2011 | 10:58
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Vietnam welcomed more than 460,000 international visitors in April, up 6.3 per cent against the same period last year, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).
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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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