The number of foreign visitors to Hanoi in the first nine months of this
year amounted to 1.9 million, a year-on-year increase of 20 percent and
representing 35 percent of all international arrivals in Vietnam.
Up to 1.4 million foreign visitors were from China, rising by 37
percent from a year earlier. It was followed by the Republic of Korea
and Japan, said the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism.
In the first eight months of 2013, Vietnam
welcomed around 4.9 million international tourists, up 7.9 percent
year-on-year. They mainly came from Russia (up by 63.1 percent),
China (33.1 percent), Indonesia (25.6 percent), Thailand (24.2
percent) and New Zealand (21.9 percent).-VNA