HANOI, Feb 28 (NNN-VNA) – Vietnam saw 933,000 international arrivals in Feb, surging 31.6 times compared to the same period last year, the country’s General Statistics Office (GSO) said, today.
The surge in tourists is due mainly to the country’s full reopening to foreign visitors, and the resumption of international commercial flights.
During the period, foreign arrivals to Vietnam by air accounted for 89.6 percent of the total, followed by road with 9.6 percent and sea routes with 0.8 percent.
Most of the arrivals were from Asia with around 74 percent, the data showed.
Foreign arrivals to the country in the first two months of this year increased to 1.8 million, or a 36.6-fold jump from the same period last year, but still below 60 percent of the pre-pandemic levels in 2019, said the GSO.
As global airline traffic is on the way to full recovery, Vietnam’s air passenger traffic jumped to nearly 20 million in the Jan-Feb period, the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam said, with 22 civil airports handling 4.7 million international passengers and 14.8 million domestic passengers.
About 3.7 million international tourists arrived in 2022, and Vietnam is targeting foreign arrivals of eight million in 2023, according to the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism.– NNN-VNA
