Vietnam's Visitation Rate Is 69% of Pre-Covid Levels
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- In Vietnam, foreign tourist arrivals for the first nine months of 2023 increased significantly by 4.7 times compared to the previous year, with a 13.4% decrease in September from August.
- Cambodia witnessed a 251% year-on-year increase in foreign visitors for the first eight months of the year, targeting 4.5 to 5 million arrivals in total for the year.
- Macau's visitor arrivals during Golden Week exceeded 150,000 on the third day, with plans for Galaxy Macau Phase 4 to open in 2026 with fewer hotel rooms than initially planned.
According to information from the General Statistics Office, the number of foreign tourists to Vietnam in the first nine months of 2023 reached 8.9 million, a 4.7-fold year-on-year increase. September cooled a bit, down 13.4% from August to just more than 1 million foreign visitors. The nine-month visitation was 69% of pre-Covid levels. Revenue from accommodations and catering services rose by 16%, while earnings from travel and tourism services rose by 47% year-on-year.
Over in Cambodia, the Ministry of Tourism reported that 3.5 million foreign visitors entered the country during the first eight months of the year, up 251% year on year but still down -19.7% from the same period in 2019. Cambodia is targeting 4.5 million to 5 million visitor arrivals this year.
The number of visitor arrivals coming to Macau on the third day of Golden Week topped 150,000 again, at 150,039. That brings the first three days of the 8-day
