World's second most beautiful island witnesses surge in Chinese tourist arrivals

This remarkable growth highlights Phu Quoc's growing appeal to the world's largest outbound tourism market and presents new opportunities for tourism cooperation between Vietnam and China, according to Kien Giang Online.

Last year, the island received 39,000 Chinese visitors.

Currently, flights from Xi'an City bring more than 140 Chinese tourists to Phu Quoc each day.

Recently, a delegation of representatives from 30 Chinese travel agencies visited Phu Quoc to directly experience and assess its tourism offerings, laying the groundwork for a larger-scale strategy to bring more Chinese tourists to the island.

Xu Zhou, deputy consul general of China in Ho Chi Minh City, praised the island's tourism potential and expressed hopes of expanding flight connections and fostering two-way tourism exchanges.

"Phu Quoc has rich tourism resources. Many Chinese people choose Phu Quoc as their number one destination," Zhou said.

In February, Chinese actor and martial artist Vincent Zhao celebrated the Lunar New Year holiday with his family on Phu Quoc Island.

Phu Quoc Island, voted the world's second most beautiful by readers of Travel+Leisure magazine, welcomed more than 2 million visitors, including 474,468 foreign tourists, in the first quarter of this year, marking a 66.5% year-on-year increase.

Vietnam's largest island aims to attract 1 million foreign visitors in 2025.