Published:  15:57 Wednesday - November 02, 2011

According to the statistic report of the Vietnam National Tourism Administration, the number of foreign tourists to Vietnam in the first ten months of 2011 reached an estimated 4.83 million, increasing 15.8 percent compared to last year.

In October, Vietnam welcomed over 518,000 foreign tourists, up more than 80 percent from October last year.

Over the past ten months, more than 4 million foreign tourists came to Vietnam by plane, a year-on-year rise of 20.8 percent. On the contrary, the number of foreign tourists to Vietnam by sea and road saw decreases of 27.1 percent and 0.4 percent compared to the same period last year.

Among 4.83 million foreign tourists to Vietnam from the early of the year, more than 2.9 million had tours in Vietnam, a year-on-year rise of 11.9 percent. The rest came to the country for business, visiting relatives and other purposes.

So far this year, almost all foreign markets of Vietnam tourism have increased year-on-year. Visitors from Cambodia rose 56.9 percent while the number of tourists from China (45.8 percent), the Republic of Korea (6 percent), Japan (8.5 percent), Taiwan (5.9 percent), Malaysia (11.7 percent) and the US (0.09 percent) also saw positive increases.

Source:  CPV

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