Record-breaking quarter: Vietnam welcomes over 6 million foreign tourists in first three months

Foreign tourists enjoying the drinks on the cafes along the famous 'train track street' in downtown Hanoi in March 2025. - Photo: VNA/VNS

HANOI: Vietnam's tourism industry continues its impressive post-pandemic recovery, welcoming 6.018 million international visitors in the first quarter of 2025.

This marks a 29.6 per cent increase compared to the same period last year, and making for the biggest number of arrivals to the country in a single quarter in history, according to the Q1 socio-economic report from the General Statistics Office released on Sunday (April 6).