Vietnam vs Thailand: Who Gets More Tourists? 🇻🇳🇹🇭
Vietnam and Thailand: foreign tourists per year, 1995-2026.
Vietnam: 918K (1995) → 12.2M (2019) → 2.6M (2020, COVID) → 17.5M (2024) → 19.2M (2026, projection)
Thailand: 7.0M (1995) → 39.9M (2019) → 6.7M (2020, COVID) → 35.5M (2024) → 38.9M (2026, projection)
What the number means: 10M = ten million times a year someone from abroad arrived and stayed at least one night.
A dotted line marks estimates and projections; the light band marks the COVID years.
Terms used:
- International tourist = a visitor from abroad who stays at least one night; one person who comes twice counts twice. Day-trippers and cruise passengers are not counted.
- Projection = UN Tourism's forecast; estimate = a calculated value, not a measurement. 2020-2021: COVID - borders were closed in many countries.
Data: UN Tourism (World Tourism Organization), Tourism Statistics Database, via Our World in Data; the figures of the top destinations 2022-2025 from the UN Tourism World Tourism Barometer. 2025: estimate (the last figure grown by UN Tourism's 2025 growth for the region or the country); 2026: projection (UN Tourism's forecast for 2026, +3.5%).
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