Foreign visitors to Hanoi in 2017.

Foreign visitors reached 2.052 million, a 14% rise over a year earlier. In May alone, over 1.651 million tourist arrivals visited the capital, up 7.6% compared to the same period last year, in which foreigners were 294,000, up 10%.
Over the past five months, the total star-ranked accommodation establishments in the city were 613, with the majority of them being one-star hotels. The number of three to five-star hotels remained stable at 65, with 9,410 rooms.
In the first six months of 2017, Ministry of Industry and Trade in collaboration with the Vietnam Tourism Administration (VITA), the Hanoi People’s Committee and the Hanoi Department of Tourism has organized a ceremony to kick off the Vietnam International Travel Mart (VITM) 2017 from April 6 to 9 in Hanoi. This year’s event is estimated to attract some 60,000 person-times of visitors with over 3,000 enterprises, operating in tourism sector. In addition to the traditional markets such as Japan, South Korea, Western Europe and ASEAN.
In addition, the Vietnamese delegation led by Deputy Director General of the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism Ha Van Sieu is joining International Tourism Exchange Berlin (ITB) 2017, the most important event of the world’s tourism industry, in Germany, which runs from March 8 to 12.
Hanoi aims in 2017, attracted 23.61 million tourists, an increase of 8% over 2016, of which foreign tourists at 4.3 million, up 6% over 2016; more than 19.3 million domestic visitors, up 8.4%. Believes with the growth rate at present, the industry isn’t out of the capital will soon reach the target set.
Beside Hanoi, the number of international visitors to Vietnam in the first five months of 2017 was estimated at 5.25 million, a year-on-year surge of 29.6 per cent. According to the General Statistics Office of Vietnam, while arrivals by air touched 4.35 million passengers, an increase of 32.4 per cent against the same period last year, 730,200 visitors came by road (up 12.7 per cent), and the rest167,800 people arrived by sea (up 43.9 per cent).
Of these, there were 3.82 million visitors from Asia, up 34.4 per cent year-on-year. There were 1.57 million tourists from China, up 55.5 per cent over the same period. China ranks first in the number of visitors to Vietnam, accounting for nearly one third of all international arrivals to the country in the first five months of 2017.
In addition, an increase in tourist inflow from Asia’s key markets, with 889,200 people from the South Korea, 323,000 Japanese visitors, and 247,700 Taiwanese tourists, up 40.9 per cent, 7.1 per cent and 22.6 per cent, respectively, against the same period last year.
Vietnam tourism also welcomed 873,400 European visitors, posting a year-on-year growth of 23.7 per cent, while the number of American tourists rose 11.1 per cent to 370,100, of which visitors from the United States reached 268,300, up 9.2 per cent.