The General Statistics Office reported that around 4.2 million visited for travel and leisure purposes, up 12.1% , and 1.15 million came to work, up 8.3%. The remaining 1.14 million visited their relatives, up 8.7%.
In terms of mode of transport, the number of foreign tourists travelling by air was 5.413 million, (up 7%), and by land, 1.252 million (up 38.7%).
In the January-November period, 1.72 million Chinese came to Viet Nam, up 34.1% against the same period last year, followed by the Republic of Korea with 682,900 (up 7.4%); Japan 553,600 (up 5.5%); Cambodia 310,200 (up 3.6%) and Australia 290,100 (up 10.9%)./.
