Foreign tourists and business people to Vietnam surge in March

A French tourist walks along Hoan Kiem Lake in downtown Hanoi. - AFP

HANOI, March 31 (Bernama): The number of international arrivals to Vietnam in March increased by 41.4 per cent over the previous month and 2.2 times against the same period last year as Vietnam has fully reopened and many international flights have been restored, according to General Statistics Office (GSO).

Vietnam news agency (VNA) reported that in the first quarter of this year, the number of foreign tourists to the country reached nearly 91,000, a year-on-year rise of 89.1 per cent.