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In the first four months, Hanoi earned nearly 24 trillion VND
By Ho Ha - Tuan Minh 14:52, 2017/05/02
According to statistics, it is expected that in April 2017, the total number of tourists to Hanoi reached 1,785,000 turns, increasing a year-on-year of 7%. Total revenue from tourists reached VND 5,450 billion, representing a year-on-year increase of 9%.


About 4.28 million foreign tourists visited Vietnam in the first four months, representing a year-on-year surge of 30.3%, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

Of the figure, about 3.5 million foreigners travelled by air (up 32.6% against the same period last year); 610,000 others came by road (up 11.1%); and the rest arrived by sea (up 77.6%).

The agency reported an increase in tourist inflows from key markets with 1.27 Chinese visitors (61.1%), 701,000 Korean visitors (up 35.1%) and 261,000 Japanese visitors (up 6.6%).

In the reviewed time, Vietnam welcomed 747,000 European visitors, posting a year-on-year growth of 25.5% while the number of American tourists rose 9.1% to nearly 230,000.

By the end of the first quarter of 2017, the total number of visitors to Hanoi reached over 6.1 million, up 7% over the same period of 2016. International tourists reached over 1.2 million visitors. Tourism revenue in the first quarter of 2017 reached over 18 trillion VND, up 9% over the same period of 2016. The leading international market for visitors to Hanoi are: China, Korea, Japan, East South Asia, America, France, Australia, etc.
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