Wednesday, November 6, 2024 In October, Vietnam recorded an impressive influx of 1.42 million international visitors, showing a 27.6% increase compared to the same month last year.
This brings the total number of foreign tourists to 14.1 million for 2024. Despite this growth, the figure remains only about half of Thailand’s total.
South Korea continues to be the top source of travelers, with 3.73 million arrivals over the first 10 months of the year. Mainland China follows with 3.
01 million visitors, while Taiwan accounts for 1.06 million, the U.S.
contributes 636,000, and Japan rounds out the top five with 584,908 visitors, as reported by the General Statistics Office on Wednesday. Rounding out the top 10 sources of international visitors to Vietnam are Australia with 395,695 tourists, India close behind at 394,509, Malaysia contributing 392,449, Cambodia at 365,757, and Thailand with 339,763 travelers. Vietnam aims to attract an additional 3.
9 million foreign tourists by year-end to reach its goal of 18 million visitors, a target set to match pre-Covid figures. The nation is now in its prime tourism season, spanning from October through April, and is already seeing an influx of cruise ships with thousands of international travelers arriving. Meanwhile, Thailand has seen over 29.
08 million foreign visitors this year, generating a revenue of 1.358 trillion baht (around US$40.14 billion).
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