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