Vietnam served nearly 7.6 million international holiday-makers in the first five months of this year, up 64.9% year-on-year and 3.9% compared to the same period in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO). Of them, 83.7% traveled by air, 14.2% by land, and 2.1% by sea. In May alone, the country accommodated nearly 1.4 million foreign arrivals, surging by 51% over the same period last year. Revenue from accommodation and catering services in the reviewed period was estimated to reach 296.3 trillion VND (over 11.64 billion USD), an increase of 15.1% over the same period last year while travel tourism revenue totaled an estimated 24.2 trillion VND, marking a year-on-year rise of 45.1%.
Source: Vietnam News Agency
