Foreign visitors in Q1 surge nearly 90 percent

Foreign tourists ride a roller coaster in Phu Quoc Island during the Lunar New Year holiday in February 2022. Photo by VnExpress/Phuong Thao

The number of foreign arrivals to Vietnam in the first quarter of this year jumped 89.1 percent year-on-year to 91,000 as international flights and inbound tourism resumed.

Arrivals from Asian countries surged 37.5 percent year-on-year to 58,495, accounting for over half of total foreign arrivals in the first three months of this year, according to a report released by the General Statistics Office (GSO) on Tuesday.

Entrants from Europe surged by 360 percent year-on-year to 16,635 and arrivals from Australia increased by 850 percent year-on-year to 3,111.

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