Vietnam hits new record for international visitors in the first month of 2025
Favorable visa policies, intensified tourism promotion programmes, and prestigious international travel awards have driven a surge in international arrivals to Vietnam in January 2025, reaching nearly 2.1 million, up 18.5% from the previous month and 36.9% year-on-year.
This was a new record for the Vietnam tourism industry, surpassing the figure of nearly 2 million international visitor arrivals in January 2020. Compared to the same period in 2019, the figure was 37.8% higher.
Notably, China has regained the number 1 market sending visitors to Viet Nam with 575 thousand arrivals, accounting for 27.7% of the total international visitors, which was a lot higher than the same period in January 2019 (373.5 thousand arrivals).
South Korea ranked second with 417 thousand arrivals (accounting for 20.1%), followed by Cambodia, the US, Taiwan (China), Japan, Australia, India, Malaysia, and Thailand.
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The main growth drivers in January 2025 came from the large markets such as China, up 137.4% over the same period in 2024; Cambodia (+168.6%), the US (+22.3%); Japan (+19.3%), Taiwan (China) (+8.5%); Australia (+7.1%), India (+5.2%). Positive growth were also recorded by nearby markets in Southeast Asia such as the Philippines (+104.9%), Laos (+99.4%), Indonesia (+7.5%).
The industry continued to witness impressive growth from European markets thanks to open policy of unilateral visa exemptions, including Russia (+116.8%), the UK (+13.8%), France (+16.1%), Germany (+22.9%), in addition to Italy (+21.8%), Spain (+7.2%), Denmark (+17.8%), Norway (+35.6%), Sweden (+31.8%).
(Source: VNA, TITC)
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