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Viet Nam

East Asia & Pacific

Viet Nam is a tourism destination in East Asia & Pacific. This dashboard presents the best available tourism indicators and historical arrivals data from official sources.

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International Tourist Arrivals

3.8M

Latest verified value · 2020

International Tourism Receipts

$149M

Latest verified value · 2021

TCTI Destination Profile

Growing tourism destination

Viet Nam has experienced rapid long-term tourism growth. This profile is calculated from the best available annual and monthly tourism records currently held by TCTI.

Executive tourism profile for Viet Nam

Profile confidence

50

/ 100

Confidence reflects the intelligence modules currently supported by compatible source data.

Growth profile

Rapid growth

Seasonality profile

Not yet available

What this means

  • Rapid visitor growth may increase demand for accommodation, transport, infrastructure, and destination management.

The destination profile combines TCTI's available growth and seasonality intelligence. Confidence reflects whether both compatible annual-arrivals and monthly-tourist-night datasets are available.

Tourism Intelligence

Executive summary

A concise interpretation of the strongest official tourism records currently available for Viet Nam.

2 indicators available
East Asia & Pacific
Upper middle income

Viet Nam is a tourism destination in East Asia & Pacific. This dashboard presents the best available tourism indicators and historical arrivals data from official sources.

International tourist arrivals were 3.8M in 2020. International tourism receipts were $149M in 2021.

The figures shown here are drawn from World Bank and UN Tourism. Reporting years may differ between indicators because TCTI displays the strongest verified or published value currently available for each measure.

Derived Intelligence

Tourism growth

How international tourist arrivals changed between 1995 and 2020.

TCTI Growth Insight

Rapid growth

Confidence

95%

Viet Nam's international tourist arrivals increased by 184% between 1995 and 2020. This is equivalent to an average annual growth rate of +4.3%. The sharpest annual decline was 78.7% in 2020.

Total growth

+184%

1995 to 2020

Average annual growth

+4.3%

Compound annual growth rate

Starting arrivals

1.4M

Reported in 1995

Latest arrivals

3.8M

Reported in 2020

Largest annual increase

+34.8%

Change recorded in 2010

Largest annual decline

-78.7%

Change recorded in 2020

What this means

  • Long-term growth trends can indicate changes in destination popularity.
  • Growth should be interpreted alongside seasonality, visitor spending, and tourism dependence.

Growth is calculated using the earliest and latest available international arrivals data held by TCTI. Results may reflect gaps or methodological changes in the underlying series.

Key Tourism Indicators

Tourism performance at a glance

Verified tourism indicators currently available for Viet Nam. Reporting years may differ by dataset.

2020

International Tourist Arrivals

3.8M

World Bank · 2020

International Tourist Arrivals

VerifiedHistorical
2021

International Tourism Receipts

$149M

UN Tourism · 2021

International Tourism Receipts

VerifiedHistorical

Rankings & Comparisons

How Viet Nam compares

Positions use each country's best currently available official record. Years can differ, so use these as directional benchmarks rather than synchronized league tables.

Data Availability

33% dashboard coverage

2 of 6 dashboard indicators currently have usable official data for Viet Nam.

0 current0 reporting lag2 historical

Available

  • ✓International Tourist Arrivals · 2020 · Historical
  • ✓International Tourism Receipts · 2021 · Historical

Not Yet Available

  • ○Tourist Nights
  • ○Tourism Direct Share of GDP
  • ○Tourism Employment Share
  • ○Resident Tourism Trips

Official Sources

Data sources used for Viet Nam

These organizations and datasets provide the indicators currently displayed on this country dashboard.

✓

UN Tourism

Latest displayed year: 2021

Official

Indicators

  • • International Tourism Receipts

Datasets

  • International Tourism Receipts
✓

World Bank

Latest displayed year: 2020

Official

Indicators

  • • International Tourist Arrivals

Datasets

  • International Tourist Arrivals
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Historical Trend

International arrivals over time

Annual international tourist arrivals reported for Viet Nam. Values are shown in millions.

Source: World BankYears: 1995–2020Annual data

Dataset: International Tourist Arrivals

About the Data

Best available official data

TCTI evaluates available tourism records by reporting status, year, source priority, official-source status, and publication history. The dashboard displays the strongest available record while preserving historical observations and alternative sources in the database.