Over 2.16 million foreign tourist arrivals visited Ho Chi Minh city in the first half of 2015, a year-on-year rise of 3%, reported the Municipal People’s Committee on June 24th.
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Foreign visitors visiting Reunification Palace |
With this, the foreigner arrivals to Ho Chi Minh city fulfilled 46% of the city’s year’s plan of welcoming 4.7 million arrivals. Turnover from travel, hotels and restaurants reached over VND47.25 trillion, a year-on-year rise of 7%.
The countries sending the largest number of tourists to the southern hub were the US, Japan, the Republic of Korea, China, Australia and France and several countries in ASEAN such as Singapore and Malaysia.
Ho Chi Minh city’s tourism sector has undertaken numerous promotion activities at home and abroad and launched many publications about the city’s tourism to foreign tourists. In addition, it has officially operated the tourism switchboard 1087 in Vietnamese and English languages.