Tourism booming as Vietnam welcomes over 8.8 million international visitors in H1; Koreans top foreign arrivals


HANOI (Xinhua): Vietnam attracted over 8.8 million international visitors in the first half of 2024, up 4.1 per cent from the same period in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, according to the latest statistics released by the country's General Statistics Office.

During the period, foreign arrivals to Vietnam by air accounted for 83.8 percent (7.4 million) of the total, followed by 14.3 percent by road (1.3 million) and 1.9 percent by sea (164,900).

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