HANOI: More than 400 international tourists arrived in Vietnam last week, the first batch of travelers to the Southeast Asian country in almost 20 months.
Two charter flights carrying more than 400 South Korean and Japanese fully vaccinated passengers from Seoul and Tokyo landed in the southern resort city of Nha Trang. Vietnam’s borders have been shut to foreign visitors since March last year.
The flights came ahead of Vietnam’s plans to reopen the resort island of Phu Quoc to vaccinated foreign visitors on November 20, with a target of receiving at least 5,000 travelers in coming months.
International tourists entering Vietnam are required to present proof of vaccination and of a negative pre-departure Covid-19 test result.
The country’s borders have been shut to international visitors since March 2020 and there are almost no commercial flights entering the country.
