Most foreign visitors to Vietnam in January from RoK: GSO
The Republic of Korea (RoK) topped the list of countries and territories with most foreign visitors to Vietnam in January 2023, as announced by the General Statistics Office of Vietnam (GSO) on January 29.
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| A group of visitors from RoK arrived in Phu Quoc islands, Kien Giang province on November 2022. (Photo: Dan tri) |
According to data released the GSO, Vietnam welcomed 258,000 Korean arrivals in January, representing a 13-fold increase month on month and a 72-fold increase year on year.
The RoK was followed by the United States (nearly 78,000 arrivals), Thailand (55,000), Australia (44,225) and Malaysia (37,267).
Besides, Japan, Cambodia, Singapore, Taiwan (China) and the United Kingdom were all countries and territories with large numbers of tourists to Vietnam in the first month of 2023.
The GSO reported Vietnam attracted 871,200 foreign arrivals in January 2023, an increase of 23.2% over the previous month and 44.2 times higher than the same period last year.
The number of foreign arrivals by air was 800,100, accounting for 91.9% of the total and 46.1 times higher than the same period last year. Meanwhile, the number of travelers by road and sea reached 65,500 and 5,600 respectively, representing corresponding increases of 27.8 times and 564.5 times.
(Source: VOV)
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