International customer quantity will increase by 38 pct in August

Foreign visitor number increases by 38 pct in August

International vacationers drink beer on Bui Vien pedestrian avenue in downtown HCMC, August 2022. Photograph by Tung Tin


The variety of international guests in August elevated by 38% from the earlier month to 486,400 because the tourism trade continued to get well.

South Koreans topped the listing at 173,000 adopted by People (139,000) and Cambodians (82,000), based on the Common Statistics Workplace.

To this point this 12 months the nation has acquired 1.44 million international vacationers, solely 28 % of the full-year goal.

Tourism revenues throughout the January-August interval reached VND356.6 trillion ($15.2 billion), 80 % of revenues gained from the identical interval in 2019, the 12 months earlier than Covid-19 hit, based on Vietnam National Administration of Tourism.

With the numbers nonetheless not assembly expectations, the administration has urged the federal government to contemplate increasing the listing of eligible nations for visa waiver and doubling visa-free stays for vacationers from western European nations to 30 days.

The federal government is contemplating issuing e-visas to nationals of extra nations.

It now points 30-day single-entry visas on-line to folks from 80 nations and territories, together with Australia, India, the U.Ok., and the U.S.

Source: E.vnexpress.net