Vietnam reports August gains

Vietnam National Administration of Tourism estimates the country welcomed 490,000 international travellers in August representing an improvement of 14.50% over 427,935 visits in the same month last year.

Vietnam provides details of just the top 10 suppliers in its monthly reports.

Visits by Thai travellers were identified  in the top 10 ranking last May with 14,660 trips, down 28.49% from 18,837 visits during the same month in 2010. Since then, the Thai outbound travel market fell off the ratings at least for Vietnam.

China continues as the top supplier in August with 117,400 visits showing an improvement of 35.88% from 86,401 visits in 2010, followed by South Korea, US, Japan, Cambodia and Taiwan.

Neigbouring Cambodia gained fifth place supplying 37,600 visits and increasing 67.91% over 22,392 visits.

All of the top markets are in the Asia/Pacific region with the exception of the United States and France.

From January to August, arrivals reached 3,963,300 visits improving 18.36% from 3,348,456 visits over the same period last year.

VNAT updated its data on its website, Tuesday, sourced from the government statistics office.

Source - ttrweekly