Foreign visitors to Vietnam surge 80% in Oct.

The number of foreign visitors to Vietnam rose by 80.9 percent in October compared with the previous month, totaling 518,477, the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism reported on Tuesday. About 314,000 foreign visitors came to the country for holidays, up 21.1 percent against last October, and 86,305 visitors arrived for business purposes, a decline of 0.1 percent. In the first ten months, a total of 4.83 million foreign tourists came to Vietnam, of whom 2.9 million visitors came for tourism purposes. During the period, the country welcomed the highest increase of visitors from Cambodia with 56.9 percent, followed by China, 45.8 percent, Malaysia, 11.7 percent and Japan, 8.5 percent. Visitors from South Korea, France, Australia and the United States were also on the rise, said the report.