Vietnam Forecasts a Tourism Rebound
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- STR said hotel RevPAR in China was up 58% year over year for the week ended February 25.
- The number of foreign tourists arriving in Vietnam in February reached 933,000, up 7.1% versus January.
- Hilton announced it will bring its Doubletree brand to The Orange City for the first time with DoubleTree by Hilton Nagpur.
STR said hotel RevPAR in China was up 58% year over year for the week ended February 25. It was up against a +29.5% comp in 2022. When compared with the same week in 2019, China hotel RevPAR was down -0.6%.
The number of foreign tourists arriving in Vietnam in February reached 933,000, up 7.1% versus January. The General Statistics Office said the year-over-year comparison was February 2023 was up 31.6%. In the first two months of 2023 there have been 1.8 million foreign visitors arriving in Vietnam, up 36.6% over the first two months of 2022. That number is barely 60% of what the first two months of 2019 were. Most of the visitors the first two months were from Asia at 1.29 million. European visitors totaled 242,500 and the Americas totaled 186,300. Vietnam is aiming for a total of 8 million foreign tourists this year. They received 19 million in 2019. The projection may be revised higher as it was made before China decided to drop Zero-Covid and reopen its bo
