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In the seven-day period, the Hue Complex of Monuments, a World Cultural Heritage site and famous tourist destination in the central province of Thua Thien – Hue, welcomed 117,000 visitors, including 47,000 foreigners. The total number of tourists to the site saw an increase of nearly 50 percent from the same period last year. The site offered free entrance to visitors on the first three days of the lunar year (February 16-18).

People visit the Can Tho city flower street on its opening day during the week-long Tet holiday. (Photo: VNA)

The Da Nang Tourism Department said the central coastal city served closed to 300,000 tourist arrivals during Tet, up 14 percent from 2017. The number of international visitors amounted to over 132,000, increasing 14 percent year-on-year, while the figures for domestic visitors were 164,893 and 5 percent, respectively.

The Mekong Delta city of Can Tho, meanwhile, received 700,000 tourists, 10 percent higher than last year, according to its Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

Le Minh Son, the department’s deputy director, said more than 99,000 people came to the city on an average daily basis.

The city’s tourism revenues during the holiday topped 75.8 billion VND (3.3 million USD), up 10 percent from last year.

Within just five day of Tet (February 16-20), over 1 million people flocked to the southeast region (excluding the number of visitors to the local Vung Tau beach during the period).

Binh Duong province announced that its popular Dai Nam tourism site attracted nearly 150,000 tourists during the period, a seven-fold increase compared to normal days.

Dong Nai province highlighted the number of more than 100,000 arrivals per day recorded in the local Buu Long tourism site; the figure represented an annual growth of 30 percent.

Tay Ninh province, home to the popular spiritual tourism destination of Ba Den, also posted a 5 percent increase in the number of visitors, at over 100,000 visitors per day.

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