Thai tops foreign visitors to Hue

The number of Thai visitors to the ancient capital city of Hue has increased from 4.7% in 2005 to 24% in 2010, ranking first in the list of foreign arrivals to the city.  As many as 6,000 Thai tourists arrived in Hue in a single day this year. This is the result of the close cooperation between Vietnam, Laos and Thailand in improving transport infrastructure, expanding trade exchanges across the borders and reforming migration procedures to facilitate tourism services.

Especially, the East-West Economic Corridor stretching through Myanmar, Thailand and Laos to Vietnam has opened up a lot of economic cooperation opportunities for member countries and the East sea bordered region, particularly in the tourism sector. As of early December this year, the central province of Thua Thien-Hue had received 1.36 million visitors, a year-on-year increase of 11.7%, of which the number of foreign visitors to Hue city increased by 7.9%. The province’s tourism industry earned VND774 billion, up 20.4% as compared to the same period last year.

Source=vietnamtourism