Tourism In the past years, Vietnam’s tourism has enjoyed great progress. Throughout the period 1991-2001, foreign tourism to Vietnam increased by 7.8 times, from 300,000 to 2.33 millions visitors. The number of domestic tourists jumped 8 times, from 1.5 million to 11.7 million. Revenue from tourism has also increased by 9.4 times, reaching VND 20,500 billion in 2001 (about US$ 1.37 billion). This area employed 220,000 people and helped create tens of thousands of spin-off jobs. Vietnam’s tourism has developed into a spearhead area that takes advantage effectively of the natural conditions, ecology, tradition, culture and history of Vietnam.