Of the figure, international arrivals to the capital city reached nearly 634,000, up 16 percent compared to the same period last year. Those who stayed overnight in the city numbered 445,000, mainly from the Republic of Korea, China and Japan, according to local accommodation service providers.
Meanwhile, domestic holidaymakers amounted to 1.7 million, an increase of 8.5 percent.
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Hanoi’s Department of Tourism Director Tran Duc Hai (left) greets the city’s first foreign visitor of 2019, German tourist Timo Kux. Source: vietnanews.vn |
Total tourism revenue was estimated to surge 34.2 percent year on year to VND 8.89 trillion (USD 383.3 million).
Hanoi welcomed 5.74 million foreign visitors in 2018, up 16 percent against 2017, among 26 million tourists spending time in the city.
Last year, the city was ranked 12th among the 25 best global destinations, and one of the two cities in Vietnam to enter the most prominent group in the world in terms of room reservation.
It was nominated by the World Travel Awards as one of the 17 candidates for a prize of the world’s leading city destination 2018.
Hanoi’s key tourism markets include China, the Republic of Korea, Japan, France, the US, the UK, Germany, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Canada.
Popular destinations in the city can be named as the Mausoleum of President Ho Chi Minh, the Temple of Literature and National University (Van Mieu – Quoc Tu Giam), the Hanoi Old Quarter, Thang Long Imperial Citadel, Hoan Kiem Lake and Ngoc Son Temple.
The city aims to greet 6.7 million foreign visitors out of nearly 28.6 million tourists in 2019.
Source: VNA