HANOI, June 2 (Bernama): Foreign arrivals in Vietnam jumped 70.6 percent month-on-month in May, following the removal of travel restrictions and over two weeks of SEA Games 31 competitions, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).
The May figure was 12.8 times higher than that of the same month last year, Vietnam news agency (VNA) reported the GSO said.
The number of international visitors rose 4.5-fold year-on-year in the first five months of 2022 but was still 95 percent lower than the pre-pandemic corresponding period of 2019, it added.
A majority of the foreigners (87.8 percent) travelled to Vietnam by air from January-May.
Five-month earnings from tourism surged 34.7 percent against a year earlier as a result of strong recovery of tourism activities and SEA Games 31, the region’s largest sports event which attracted thousands of athletes, coaches, officials and spectators from other South-East Asian countries.
Vietnam has moved up eight places on the 2021 Tourism and Travel Development Index (TTDI), according to a report recently released by the World Economic Forum (WEF). – Bernama
Source: Telegram