Vietnam’s Tourism Sector Set For Record Year in 2025 |
Vietnam is on track to receive a record high of 21 million foreign tourists this year, its Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism said earlier this week, making it the fastest-growing tourist destination in Southeast Asia.
The Ministry said that the country had received more than 19 million international visitors in the first 11 months of 2025, representing a year-on-year increase of 20.9 percent. This put it on track to smash the previous record of 18 million set in 2019, the last full year before the COVID-19 pandemic.
On December 15, the country welcomed its 20 millionth international visitor at Phu Quoc International Airport in southern Vietnam, which state media described as “a historic milestone in the 65-year development of the country’s tourism sector.”
During the ceremony, Ho An Phong, the deputy minister of culture, sports, and tourism, said that the milestone “demonstrates the strong, sustainable, and remarkable recovery of Vietnam’s tourism industry at a time when global tourism has only recently emerged from an unprecedented period of severe decline caused by the COVID-19........