(TITC) – According to GSO, in February 2023, Vietnam lured 933 thousand international visitor arrivals, increasing 7.1% to last month. In the first two months of 2023, there was 1.8 million visitor arrivals to Vietnam.
Figure 1. International visitors by month in 2022 and 2023 (thousand arrivals)
Source: Compiled from the GSO’s data
South Korea continues to be the largest source market in the first 2 months of 2023 with 560 thousand visitor arrivals, followed by the United States (148 thousand). Thailand ranked 3rd with 97,000 arrivals.
In the top ten markets, Northeast Asia has South Korea (560 thousand), Taiwan (90 thousand), Japan (71 thousand) and China (71 thousand). Southeast Asia has Thailand (97 thousand); Malaysia (72 thousand) and Cambodia (70 thousand).
Figure 2. Top source markets in the first two months of 2023 (thousand arrivals)
Source: Compiled from the GSO’s data
In February, the growth from major markets in Northeast Asia: South Korea (+16.4% compared to the previous month), Taiwan (+87.7%). Notably, the Chinese market reached 55 thousand arrivals, 40 thousand more than the previous month (+246.6%). Laos (14.4 thousand) doubled compared to the previous month.
Some other markets in Asia increased slightly: Japan (+6.4%), Cambodia (+5.1%). The European markets continue to maintain evenly increases: France (+15.3%), England (+5.2%), Germany (+2.9%).
Figure 2. Increase/decrease of some markets in the first 2 months of 2023 compared to the same period in 2019 (%)
Source: Compiled from the GSO’s data
In the first two months of 2023, the number of visitors from Cambodia increased 201% compared to the same period of 2019, India (+129%), Thailand (+22%), Singapore (+16%), Laos (+16%).
The markets are nearly to the same period of 2019 including the US (-7%), Australia (-11%), Indonesia (-12%). The markets with slower recovery include Germany (-23%), Malaysia (-21%), England (-27%), Korea (-27%), and France (-35%).
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