The number of Chinese citizens travelling to Vietnam is on the rise, with 112,000 visiting in April, up 61.5% year-on-year, according to information from the General Statistics Office of Vietnam.
However, it still lags well behind pre-COVID levels, with 427,000 Chinese having visited in April 2019.
The April tally takes the total number of Chinese visitor arrivals in 2023 to 252,100, with China representing the highest growth rate among Vietnam’s tourism source markets, The Saigon Times reports. The first four months of 2019 saw more than 1.7 million Chinese arrivals.
The agency also revealed that there were 3.7 million visitor arrivals to Vietnam between January and April, of which 2.7 million were from Asia. South Korea was the number one source market, contributing more than one million visitors, followed by the USA with 263,000.
Vietnam welcomed more than 18 million visitor arrivals in 2019 – China leading the way with 5.8 million followed by South Korea with 4.3 million and Japan with 952,000.
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