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Visitors from the EU, US, and Australia rose high because of increasing numbers of overseas Vietnamese living in these countries making their return home for the traditional Lunar New Year (Tet) and the high demand for winter vacations among people in the EU and US. In January, more than 1 million Asian tourists visited Vietnam, up 53.9% over January of last year. Visitor numbers from most Asian markets swelled significantly, such as China (up 69%), the Republic of Korea (up 84%), Taiwan (up 22.9%), Malaysia (up 35.5%), Thailand (11.3%), Singapore (up 16%), and Cambodia (up 36.6%). Repeating the trend, tourist numbers from the EU surged by 22.8%.

Lebreton Didier, a passenger on Vietnam Airlines’ flight VN18 which landed at Noi Bai International Airport on the morning of January 1, became the first foreigner setting foot in Hanoi in 2018.

The tourism sector will take drastic and synchronous measures in 2018 to reach the target of receiving 15-17 million international tourists, the Government said at a recent online meeting with cities and provinces nationwide.

According to Hanoi Department of Tourism, the capital of Vietnam expect welcomes more than 23 million visitors, a year-on-year rise of 9 percent. In which, foreign visitors estimate near four million, a year-on-year rise of 23 percent.

(VNF) - China is to begin taking fingerprints of all foreign visitors as it steps up security on its borders, the Ministry of Public Security said on Thursday (Feb 9).