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 decided to extend its visa waiver policy to ordinary passport holders from Canada and the United Kingdom starting from Feb 17.
Forty-one new port-of-entry duty-free shops have been established nationwide, with Xiamen Xiang'an International Airport, Xiamen Wutong Passenger Wharf, and Xiamen International Cruise Center included on the list.
