Ho Chi Minh City welcomes tourists
Ho Chi Minh City welcomed over 1 million foreign tourists in the first four months of this year, a rise of 18 percent over the same period last year.
According to the municipal Tourism Department, almost visitors came from the US , Japan , the Republic of Korea , Australia , Taiwan , Canada , China , France , Singapore and Malaysia.
During the period, about 270,000 local holiday makers went through the city’s Tan Son Nhat international airport to tour China , Singapore , Malaysia , Thailand and Cambodia .
The city’s tourism industry earned over 9.3 trillion VND, 25 percent increase over the same period last year.
Vietnam hosted nearly 1.7 million foreign tourists in the first four months of this year, a year-on-year increase of 16 percent.
(Source: VNA, URL: http://english.vietnamnet.vn/travel/2008/05/780988/)