PANO - More than 805,000 foreign tourists chose Vietnam as their destination in the first month of this year, a 12.3 percent increase over the same period last year.

(Photo for illustration. Source: hanoimoi.com.vn)

The information has been announced by the General Department of Tourism under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

Vietnam’s strongest tourist markets include China, Japan, Russia, the Republic of Korea, and the US. Among these countries, RoK ranks first with 149,330 tourists, a 28.2 percent surge in comparison with the same period in 2015.

Translated by Chung Anh