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Hanoi welcomes roughly 1.5 million foreign tourists in nine months
18:44, 2014/09/24
According to the city Statistics Office, foreign visitors to Hanoi reached approximately 1.5 million in the first nine months of this year, up 17.1% year-on-year.
Of the figure, foreign arrivals visiting the city for recreation made up 80.4% (up 16.4%) while those arriving for business accounted for 16.3% (up 20.4%).
 
 
Visitors from the Republic of Korea (RoK) topped the list, with the highest rise of around  47.9%, followed by the UK (42.3%), the US (23.3%), Thailand (20.9%) and France (36.9%).
Tourism turnover of hotels and travel agencies this month increased by 0.5% from the previous month and surged 10.2% year on year.

In September alone, foreign tourist coming to the city by air reached roughly 1,200, up 10.6% over a year earlier while those by sea and road were more than 300,000, up 52.4%.
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