Vietnam sees 46% increase in international visitors in first eight months

Foreign tourists pose for a photo on the world-famous Golden Bridge inside Ba Na Hills Sun World complex in Danang City. - Photo: VNA/VNS

HANOI: Vietnam welcomed 1.43 million international visitors in August 2024, marking a 17.7 per cent increase year-on-year, according to the latest report from the General Statistics Office of Vietnam.

Over the first eight months of 2024, the country received a total of more than 11.4 million foreign tourists -- a 45.8 per cent rise from the previous year and a one per cent increase compared to the same period in 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic.