During the first seven months of this year, nearly 2.2 million Chinese visited Vietnam, up 51 percent over the same period last year.
Among the increasing number of Chinese holiday-makers in Vietnam, those from Xiamen account for a considerable number. That's why Vietnam decided to hold its promotional event in the coastal city.
To woo more tourists in other promising tourism markets, Vietnam has organized similar promotional event in two other Chinese cities — Baotou, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, and Nanchang, Jiangxi province.
More than 7.2 million foreign tourists visited Vietnam in the first seven months of 2017, up 28.8 percent from the same period last year, according to the General Statistics Office of Vietnam.
China has extended its 240-hour visa-free transit policy and Hainan's 30-day visa-free entry policy to citizens of Kyrgyzstan and Vietnam, the National Immigration Administration said on Aug 20.
