International visitors to Vietnam to increase by nearly 40% in 2024

01/08/2025 19:01

(PLVN) - In 2024, Vietnam's tourism industry will welcome more than 17.5 million international visitors, an increase of nearly 40% over the previous year and achieve the target set at the beginning of the year (welcoming 17-18 million visitors).

In 2024, arrivals by air will reach more than 14.8 million; by road will reach nearly 2.5 million; by sea will reach nearly 248,100.

International visitors to Vietnam from Asia account for 79.6%, Europe (11.3%), America (5.7%) and Africa (0.3%).

In terms of market size, South Korea is the largest market sending visitors to Vietnam in 2024 with 4.5 million arrivals. China is in second place, reaching 3.7 million arrivals. The next positions in the top 10 markets include Taiwan (1.29 million arrivals), the US (780,000 arrivals), Japan (711,000 arrivals), India (501,000 arrivals), Malaysia (495,000 arrivals), Australia (491,000 arrivals), Cambodia (475,000 arrivals) and Thailand (418,000 arrivals).

Notably, the potential market of India has grown significantly in recent times, from 138,000 arrivals in 2022 to 392,000 arrivals in 2023, and reaching 501,000 arrivals in 2024, an increase of 2.6 times in just 2 years and currently ranked 6th in the markets sending the most visitors to Vietnam. It can be said that India is one of the most impressive growth markets, contributing to diversifying the source market of Vietnam's tourism.

Overall, the results of welcoming international visitors in 2024 show a bright picture of Vietnam's tourism industry, successfully completing the very ambitious target set at the beginning of the year, achieving a growth of nearly 40% compared to 2023. In particular, in the context of some key markets recovering slowly, the diversification and development of many potential markets has helped the tourism industry recover spectacularly.

In the past year, the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism have focused on innovating the content and methods of promotion, promoting the public-private partnership mechanism to successfully implement programs to promote Vietnamese tourism abroad, focusing on countries with comprehensive strategic partnerships such as China, Korea, Japan, the US, Australia, Russia, France, etc., along with a series of programs to introduce Vietnamese tourism at festivals, cultural events, tourism, and international tourism fairs abroad. Along with that, promoting communication and promotion activities on digital platforms to Vietnam's target markets, promoting Vietnamese tourism on CNN - a famous global television channel.

This important result is the driving force for the entire Vietnamese tourism industry to strive to achieve the goal of welcoming 22-23 million international visitors in 2025.

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