In the first seven months of 2024, Vietnam welcomes 10 million international visitors, an increase of 51% over the same period last year. Of which, the number of arrivals from European countries recorded a sharp increase.

According to the General Statistics Office, in July, Vietnam welcomed 1.15 million international arrivals, an increase of 10.9% over the same period last year. In the first seven months of 2024, international arrivals to our country reached nearly 10 million, an increase of 51% over the same period last year and an increase of 1.9% over the same period in 2019 – the year when the Covid-19 pandemic had not yet occurred.

In particular, the tourism industry recorded a strong growth in the number of visitors from Europe, with an increase of 47.3%, other markets also had high growth such as Asia with 57.1% (mainly due to the increase in Chinese visitors), Australia 27.3% and America increased by 9.7%…

Korea and China are still the two largest international tourist markets of Vietnam tourism, although the number of visitors in July decreased compared to June (respectively 310,000 and 249,200 visitors), but in the first seven months of this year, Chinese visitors still increased by 190%, Korean visitors increased by 37.2% compared to the same period last year.

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Tourists from Europe to Vietnam are increasing. Photo: Hoang Ha

In the top list of markets with a large number of international visitors to Vietnam in July, there are also Taiwan (China) with 101,465 arrivals, the United States 62,900 arrivals, Japan 44,569 arrivals, Australia 37,853 arrivals,…

In particular, the number of visitors from Europe recorded strong growth, with the total number of visitors in July being more than 103,000, an increase of 9.4% compared to the previous month.

Of which, Russian visitors increased by 75.7%, Italian by 61%, French visitors increased by 33.4%, British visitors increased by 25.2%, Spanish by 38.3%, German by 27.4%,…

That is thanks to the effect of favorable visa policies, the efforts of management agencies and tourism businesses, and localities in promoting and promoting tourism, which has attracted a high number of European visitors to Vietnam compared to the same period last year, even in the low season.

As a result, tourism revenue in the first seven months of 2024 is estimated at 35.2 trillion VND, up 31.8% over the same period last year. Some localities increased sharply such as Ho Chi Minh City increased by 42.2%; Da Nang increased by 38.6%; Can Tho increased by 33.7%; Hanoi increased by 29.7%; Quang Ninh increased by 21%;…