Over 2.1 million foreign tourists visit HCM city

(VNF) – Over 2.16 million foreign tourist arrivals visited Ho Chi Minh City in the first half of 2015, a year-on-year rise of 3%, reported the Municipal People’s Committee on June 24th.
June 26, 2015 | 16:18

(VNF) – Over 2.16 million foreign tourist arrivals visited Ho Chi Minh City in the first half of 2015, a year-on-year rise of 3%, reported the Municipal People’s Committee on June 24th.

Over 2.1 million foreign tourists visit HCM city

Foreign tourists visiting Cu Chi tunnels in HCM city

With this, the foreigner arrivals to Ho Chi Minh City fulfilled 46% of the city’s year’s plan of welcoming 4.7 million arrivals. Turnover from travel, hotels and restaurants over the past six months reached over VND47.2 trillion, a year-on-year rise of 7%.

The countries sending the largest number of tourists to the southern hub were the US, Japan, the Republic of Korea, China, Australia and France and several countries in ASEAN such as Singapore and Malaysia.

Ho Chi Minh City’s tourism sector has undertaken numerous promotion activities at home and abroad and launched many publications to provide more relevant information about the city’s tourism to foreign tourists. In addition, the city has officially operated the tourism switchboard 1087 with two languages of Vietnamese and English./.

( Minh Hoang )

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