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Number of foreign visitors to Vietnam increases over 12% in July

The number of international tourists to Vietnam reached 593,566 arrivals in July, up 12.1% over last month and 5.1% against the same period last year.

According to the General Statistics Office, in the first seven months of 2015, Vietnam welcomed nearly 4.4 million foreign visitors, a yearly decline of 9.4%.
Growing markets included the Republic of Korea, Finland, Singapore, Spain, Italy, the US, Taiwan (China), Germany, Japan and the Netherlands. 
From January-July, the tourism sector served 43.1 million domestic visitors and earned over 214.37 trillion VND (10.1 billion USD) in revenue, a year-on-year rise of 1.5%.
At present, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism are working with localities to implement the Government’s resolution on five-year visa exemptions for Belarus and one-year exemptions for five Western European countries, including the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. 
The tourism sector plans to coordinate with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Vietnamese Embassies and Trade Offices in the six countries to popularise Vietnam’s visa exemption policy. 

 
In the first seven months of 2015, Vietnam welcomed nearly 4.4 million foreign visitors.
In the first seven months of 2015, Vietnam welcomed nearly 4.4 million foreign visitors.
A promotion programme for tourists from the five Western European countries has been launched with high-quality products at competitive prices, including a 20-30% discount for local products, and a tour to three Indochinese countries – Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, and another visiting Thailand, Myanmar and Singapore. 
With this programme, the tourism sector hopes to record a 10% growth in the number of holidaymakers in the first half of 2016 and 20% in the remaining months of next year. 
The tourism sector also expects to welcome 1.1 million tourists from the five Western European countries between 2016 and 2018, up 50% against 2015.
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