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Vietnam welcomes a large number of tourist arrivals
16:33, 2014/10/03
During the first nine months of this year, more than 6 million international travellers arrived in Vietnam, up 10.42% compared to last year’s corresponding period, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).
Of the total, over 3.6 million arrived in the country for leisure, up 8.8%; over 1 million for business purposes, up 10.8%; over 1 million were visiting relatives, up 14.2 % and the others were in Vietnam for ‘other’ purposes.
 
 
Of the total foreign visistors to Vietnam, more than 1.5 million Chinese visitors, an increase of 13.5%; 618,500 from the Republic of Korea, up 10%, and 486,400 from Japan, up 8,1%.
Domestic tourism was estimated at over 32 million in the first nine months and helped boost the country’s revenue from tourism to VND179 trillion, up 8% year-on-year.
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