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

• Launching Online Healthcare Payment Solution (01/01)
• Discovering pig-tailed macaque after 2 years being released back to forest through camera trap (04/12)
• Overseas Vietnamese community share difficulty with Thua Thien Hue (21/11)
• Hue city uses the broken nacre tree for the sculpture competition at Festival 2021 (16/11)
• Speech by General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong at 13th National Party Congress of Communist Party of Vietnam (in English and French)  (02/11)
• 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)