Reports from the General Statistics showed that international visitors to Vietnam in October reached 1.02 million, up 5 per cent and 24.7 per cent, as compared to the previous month and the same period last year, respectively.
The rise brought the total number of international visitors to Vietnam in the first ten months of 2017 to 10.47 million, a year-on-year surge of 28.1 per cent.
While arrivals by air touched 8.8 million passengers, an increase of 32.8 per cent against the same period last year, nearly 1.4 million visitors arrived by road (up 18 per cent), and over 200,000 people arrived by sea (down 8.1 per cent).

October was the seventh month from the beginning of 2017 that saw the number of international visitors to Vietnam reached over one million people.

In ten months, visitors from Asia reached 7.9 million, up 32.8 per cent over the same period last year, of which arrivals from most major markets increased significantly. In particular, the number of visitors from China increased by 45.6 per cent, those from the Republic of Korea rose by 53.9 per cent, from Japan increased by 7.7 per cent and those from Malaysia increased by 17.2 per cent. While visitors from Thailand increased by 12.7 per cent, those from Singapore increased 7.8 per cent.
Visitors from Europe in the past ten months surged to around 1.5 million people, up 18.1 per cent against the same period last year, of which the highest increase was from Russian visitors (up 38.3 per cent). Visitors from the West European countries who do not need a visa to Vietnam, including Britain, France, Germany, Spain and Italy also increased, with the highest increase from Spain, up 20.6 per cent.
The number of visitors from the American continent also surged, with 671,000 passengers, a year-on-year increase of 10.4 per cent.
Industry insiders forecast that the rise will be higher in the remaining months of the year when the country hosts the APEC meeting and also due to major holidays such as New Year.
Vietnam this year targets to welcome 13 million international tourists, up 30 percent against last year.
The service and tourism sector has taken a leap this year, contributing 3.2 percentage points to the country’s 6.7 per cent GDP growth./.
Caption: Foreign tourists visit Hoi Ancient Town on the coastal plain of Quang Nam Province, about 30 km south of Da Nang City.