International visitors in Hue Imperial Citadel. Photo: Duc Quang

Accordingly, the international visitors reached 609,085 arrivals, the number of overnight guests reached 955,016 and the occupancy rate reached 62 percent. Total revenue from tourism in the first 6 months was 1,700 billion VND, growing by 7.81%.

Particularly in June 2017, the number of tourist arrivals in Hue reached 311,472 in which international visitors reached 73,362 arrivals; overnight guests reached 162,485 arrivals, and revenue in June was 309 billion VND.

By Duc Quang

• A valuable and rare wild cat released back to the natural environment (08/09)
• Hue Central Hospital opens the Center of Remote Consultation and Medical Treatment (02/09)
• Hue has not recorded any COVID-19 cases (04/08)
• Festival Hue pushed back to next year (01/08)
• “Environment and wildlife protection” (09/07)
• Resuscitation for patient with intussusception due to hook and fishing line (03/07)
• Provincial Chairman awards certificate of merit to student winning the first prize of UPU International Letter-Writing Contest (01/07)
• A Cuora mouhotii tortoise released back to natural environment (23/06)