Vietnam Sees Boom in American Arrivals in June
The number of American tourists to Vietnam in June skyrocketed 48.5 percent over May, totaling over 1.72 million foreign visitors in the first half of 2005, said the country’s tourism watchdog.
Statistics of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) showed that 35,053 Americans visited Vietnam in June. Thanks to the unexpected surge, the total US arrivals in the reached 166,875 or 19.4 percent over the same period last year.
In total, Vietnam lured more than 1.72 million foreign tour-goers in the January-June period, up 23.7 percent year-on-year.
The robust growth of the tourism industry in the first half is mainly attributed to traditional source markets. Specifically, 405,817 Chinese nationals visited Vietnam in the period, up 5.7 percent year-on-year.
Vietnam has remained a favorite destination of Taiwanese, Korean, Japanese and Thai people in the period.
Also, the country witnessed considerable increase in arrivals from Scandinavian markets like Finland 49 percent, Sweden 41.6 percent and Denmark 21 percent, though the number of tourists from these markets is still small.
(Source: VietnamNet - Compiled by Thanh Hang)
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Published: 28 June, 2005, 11:06:22 (GMT+7)
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