Nearly 13 million int-visitor arrivals to Vietnam in 9 months 2024

Figure 1. International visitors by month of 2024 (thousands arrivals)
Source: Compiled from General Statistics Office

According to the latest report of GSO, around 12.7 million visitor arrivals travelled to Vietnam in the first nine months of 2024, about 43% more than the same period of 2023 and 1% less than the same period of 2019.

Data shows 1.27 million visitor arrival in September, increasing 20.9% over September 2023, reducing 12% to last month. One of reasons came from super typhoon Yagi in the North of Vietnam with great devastation, seriously affecting tourism service in key tourist destinations such as Quang Ninh, Hai Phong, Ha Noi, Thai Binh, Nam Dinh, Tuyen Quang... The storm's circulation also caused flooding for many days in many northern provinces and cities, causing damage to infrastructure, roads, people, and disrupting travel and tourism activities. Many customers booked tours, rooms and related services, but had to cancel due to the storm's impact.

Inbound characteristics in Jan – Sep 2024

Korea remained the top first tourism source market with 3.37 million visitor arrivals (accounting for 26.5%), following by China (2.7 million, 21.3%).

Top ten source markets also mentioned are Taiwan (China), US, Japan, Malaysia, Australia, India, Cambodia, and Thailand.

Figure 2. Top 10 tourist source markets of Vietnam in
the first nine months of 2024 (thousands of arrivals)
Source: Compiled from General Statistics Office

Northeast Asia markets drove the recovery of international arrivals. In which, the China was up 141.4% over the same period in 2023, Korea (+30.3%), Japan (+27.6%), Taiwan of China (+65.8%).

Number of Southeast Asia visitors saw good increasing such as Indonesia (+91.9%), Philippines (+59.5%), Laos (+14.4%), Cambodia (+12.4%), Malaysia (+6.9%), Singapore (+5.4%). The Thai market alone decreased by 14.3%. India market continued to climbed 27.0%.

Notably, Europe markets kept growing like UK (+19.9%), France (+28.1%), Germany (+23.3%), Italy (+55.1%), Spain (+24.8%), Russia (+80.5%), Denmark (+22.1%), Norway (+15.7%), and Sweden (+22.8%).

Recovery level compared to 2019

In general, international visitor arrivals hit 99% of pre-pandemic levels in nine months through September 2024.

Some of the strong performers in Asia were India (305% versus 2019), Cambodia (300%), Indonesia (171%), Laos (155%), Philippines (134%), Singapore (112%), Korea (107%). China just recovered 68%, Japan (74%).

From Europe region, Spanish visitor arrivals set 103%, Italian: 119%, Germany: 107%. UK (95%) and France (92%) markets nearly come back. US recorded 102% of its pre-pandemic visitor numbers and Australia recovered 122%.

Vietnam hopes to attract 17 – 18 million visitor arrivals in 2024.
Source: Tourism Information Technology Center
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