OVER TWO MILLION TOURISTS FLOCK TO HANOI FOR NATIONAL DAY HOLIDAY

Crowds of residents and visitors lined the streets around Ba Dinh Square in Hanoi to watch the September 2 parade - PHOTO: H.T.

HCMC – Hanoi welcomed over two million visitors during the four-day National Day break, three times higher than a year earlier, with tourism revenue soaring 80% to VND4.5 trillion, official data showed.

Of these, international arrivals exceeded 80,000, up 35% from the same holiday in 2024, according to the Hanoi Department of Tourism.

Rising demand for accommodation and leisure pushed many three- to five-star hotels to full capacity, especially on September 1.

The average occupancy rate across hotels and serviced apartments reached 83%, up 22.6 percentage points against a year earlier. Service providers strictly complied with fire safety, environmental hygiene, and food safety regulations.

Hanoi marked this year’s National Day with a lineup of large-scale cultural and artistic events, including celebrations of the 80th anniversaries of the August Revolution and National Day, the “Ba Dinh in Red” show, the double-deck “Hanoi Train” tour, and activities in Bat Trang, Duong Lam, along with double-decker bus city tours.

Another highlight was the national achievement exhibition themed “80 Years of Independence – Freedom – Happiness” at the National Exhibition Center in Dong Anh, which drew around 1.2 million visitors in just three days (August 28-31).

The number of visitors also surged at key attractions, with nearly 33,000 arrivals at the Thang Long Imperial Citadel and Hanoi Zoo, about 26,500 at Hoa Lo Prison, 18,000 at the Temple of Literature, and more than 3,100 at Ba Vi National Park.

Source: The Saigon Times