(VOVWORLD) - Japanese news outlet Nikkei Asia has published an article highlighting that online travel company Agoda views tourism in Vietnam as growing faster than in Thailand and Japan.
 More Koreans tourists are traveling to Vietnam. |
Omri Morgenshtern, CEO of Agoda, points out that Thailand could maintain its edge by removing visa issues, opening more flight routes, and creating business reasons to promote travel.
The article says Vietnam has grown its share of inbound travel over the first five months of the year, coming in third behind Japan and Thailand among Asian destinations. It duly jumped from fifth place in 2019, the last year of pre-pandemic travel.
Thailand topped Agoda's list last year, but was quickly overtaken by Japan, which reopened its borders in October.
Morgenshtern told reporters on Monday that while the Republic of Korea has sent the biggest group of inbound travelers to Thailand, more Koreans are traveling to Japan and Vietnam. He attributed this to a significant number of Korean factories opening in Vietnam over the past two decades, a factor which has seen the establishment of a community of expatriates who spread word about Vietnam back home.