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Hanoi among world's top 10 growing tourism citites

by PV/VTV26 October 2017 Last updated at 06:33 AM

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Hanoi among world's top 10 growing tourism citites
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VTV.vn - Hanoi has been ranked seventh on a new list of the world's fastest-growing tourism cities, with a 16.4% average annual growth rate in the 2009 - 2016 period, according to the MasterCard Global Destinations Cities Index 2017.

Hanoi ranked after Osaka, Chengdu, Colombo, Abu Dhabi, Jakarta and Tokyo. In 2016, the Vietnamese capital welcomed 2.94 million overnight visitors whose total spending reached 1.1 billion USD.

Ho Chi Minh City ranked 15th in the global list with foreign arrivals, up 11.1% on average since 2009.

The survey, which ranked 132 cities, found that travel and tourism in the Asia Pacific region including Vietnam were showing no signs of slowing down, with the region dominating visitor arrivals once again.

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