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Ha Noi among world’s top 10 fastest growing tourism cities

VGP – Ha Noi has been ranked seventh on a new list of the world’s fastest-growing tourism cities, with a 16.4% annual growth rate in the 2009-2016 period.

October 24, 2017 4:34 PM GMT+7

Ha Noi ranked after Osaka, Chengdu, Colombo, Abu Dhabi, Jakarta and Tokyo, according to the MasterCard Global Destinations Cities Index 2017.

Ha Noi was placed 7th, up from 13th last year. In 2016, the Vietnamese capital welcomed 2.94 million overnight visitors whose total spending was US$1.1 billion.

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

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

More than half of the top destination cities reported an increase in spending, consistent with or greater than their GDP increases between 2009 and 2016, and are primed to be engines of broad economic growth for their respective countries.

In 2015, the visual social network Pinterest ranked the Vietnamese capital as the third most-pinned location of all time, while Lonely Planet labelled the city's Old Quarter as a once in a lifetime experience.

International arrivals to Ha Noi in 2016 increased by 23%, to more than four million from the previous year, and the number reached 3.5 million in the first nine months of this year, a 24% annual increase.

Globally, international overnight visitor arrivals and spending in the 132 destinations have grown by 55.2% and 41.1% respectively since 2009, significantly outpacing real GDP growth in the same period.

                                                                                                                                By Vien Nhu