Vietnam arrivals slide

Visitor arrivals to Vietnam dropped by 12.3% during 11 months of this year, Vietnam National Administration of Tourism reported, last week.

However, November arrivals stood at 387,871, an increase of 38.6% when compared to the same month last year, but over the 11-month period arrivals were down 12.3% on 3,400,088 arrivals.

According to VNAT, there was a 9.1% decline in air arrivals that reached 2,719,225. Overland, arrivals dropped by 16.6% to 619,428 visits.

Leisure travel stood at 2,002,930, down 16.2%. In the leisure category, Thailand generated 138,450 arrivals, representing a 17.9% decline.

China continued as the top source market for leisure travel, but it was down 19.4% on 476,489 arrivals. Travel from the US declined 2.8% to 368,089 arrivals. South Korea dropped 21.4% to 327,384.