Tourists visit the Temple of Literature during Tet holiday. — VNA/VNS Photo Quoc Khanh The number of international tourists to the capital city of Ha Noi are estimated to rise by 30 per cent to 125,000 people during the week-long Tet (Vietnamese New Year) festival, according to the municipal Department of Tourism. Tet holidays from February 14-20 to nearly 375,000, an increase of 13 per cent from the same period last year. The figure included 250,000 domestic travellers, up 6 per cent year on year. ao dai (long robes), and perform the writing, following the traditions of the past. Tet Market, also known as “Tet Ha Thanh”, which recreated a bustling Hanoian market where visitors can enjoy a range of Tet holiday foods. Other hotels, like Pan Pacific and Apricot, hosted count-down and New Year’s Eve parties for their stayers. — VNS
Most of the foreign visitors came from China, the Republic of Korea, Japan, the United States, France, Germany, Australia, Malaysia and Thailand. The figure brought the total number of visitors to the city during the Tet holidays from February 14-20 to nearly 375,000, an increase of 13 percent from the same period last year. The figure included 250,000 domestic travellers, up six percent year on year. The local tourism industry estimated to earn more than VND1.28 trillion (US$56.5 million ) during the biggest holiday of the year, up 19 percent year on year. Most visitors flocked to the city’s popular…... [read more]
Tourists visiting the city by air reached an estimated 1.3 million arrivals, up 15 percent year on year while those by sea and road posted 350,000 arrivals, down 5 percent year on year. The city's tourism sector earned total revenue of VND 23 trillion in the first six months, a year-on-year rise of 24 percent. Markets which saw large numbers of tourists coming to HCMC over the past six months were the US, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Taiwan (China), Singapore and Malaysia. Quang Ninh News Online has reported nearly 4 million tourist arrivals visited the northern province in the…... [read more]
Of the total, the number of foreign tourists coming to Lao Cai was over 348,000. Visitors from China (using travel card) still took the lead with 53,100 arrivals, up 78.4 percent against the same period last year, while 447,650 domestic arrivals visited Lao Cai, a year-on-year increase of 6 percent. Over the past nine months, Sa Pa district attracted 388,176 visitors, reaching 75 percent of the year's plan, while more than 79,900 foreign tourists visited the area. Total tourism revenue of the province reached VND 1.100 billion in the first nine months this year, reaching 122.2 percent of the year's…... [read more]
Around 310,000 foreign tourists visited Ho Chi Minh City in Jan. 2012, the same number as last year, and about 60,000 overseas Vietnamese entered the country through Tan Son Nhat airport in HCMC during the same period, according to the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism on Jan. 31. During the Tet Lunar New Year holidays, approximately 80,000 passengers commuted via Tan Son Nhat airport, a year-on-year increase of 20 per cent. The number of tourists travelling to Cambodia through the Moc Bai border gate in Tay Ninh Province numbered about 40,000. During the Tet holidays, the number of tourists…... [read more]
About 25,000 Chinese holiday-makers visited Mong Cai, a city on the border between Vietnam and China, in northern Quang Ninh province on one-day tours during the Lunar New Year holiday from February 7 to 13. It was the highest number of visitors ever recorded, said the border guard station at China’s Dongxing border gate. Statistics released on February 14 by China’s Guangxi Tourism Development Committee also showed that the number of Chinese tourists travelling to Vietnam through Dongxing, Pingxiang and Longbang of Guangxi province during the national holiday doubled the figure of the same period last year. A majority of…... [read more]
