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(KPL/VNA) – Laos welcomed over 1 million foreign tourists in the first four months of this year, according to the Tourism Development Department of Lao Ministry of Information, Culture, and Tourism.
(KPL/VNA) –
Laos welcomed over 1 million foreign tourists in the first four months of this
year, according to the Tourism Development Department of Lao Ministry of
Information, Culture, and Tourism.
Visitors from
Thailand topped the list with 431,000, followed by Vietnam (224,00), China
(223,000) and the Republic of Korea (57,000).
The Southeast
Asian country also accommodated more than 78,000 travellers from Europe and
nearly 23,000 tourists from the US.
The Lao
government has always considered tourism as one of the country's key economic
sectors and has given priority to the development of the smokeless industry. It
also identified tourism as one of the industries that need to be prioritised
not only to help revive the economy but also to create more jobs and income for
local residents in the post-COVID-19 pandemic.
The welcoming
of over 1 million visitors in the first four months of this year reflects that
the Lao tourism industry is recovering quickly and that the Government can
fulfil the goal of attracting 1.4 million international tourists, which was
announced earlier this year.
KPL
