With this week’s announcement of Vietnam’s reopening to the world, leading online travel platform Agoda today announced the nation’s knocking hardest on Vietnam’s doors to get back in.

Search data from the travel platform reveals nearby Singapore as the top market searching to revisit beautiful Vietnam and taking in the nation’s warm culture, renowned cuisine and stunning sights. Vietnam’s reopening on 15 March came a day before Singapore approved the nation as one of its VTL partner countries, reigniting  travel between the two nations.

Vietnam, which closed its borders on 22 March 2020, when news of the coronavirus first spread, reopened to international travel on 15 March 2022.  It accompanied the reopening with the resumption of visa free entry for travelers from various markets around Asia and Europe, including all of ASEAN.

Visitors from United States were the second-highest Vietnam-seekers according to the platform, South Korea – long one of Vietnam’s top investors, and also the homeland of its largest resident expatriate population – comes in third, with Koreans keen to both reignite business ties and re-explore Vietnam’s coastlines the way they have in the past.

India and Malaysia round out the top five nations searching for accommodation in Vietnam.

The top ten markets searching Vietnam is as follows:

1. Singapore
2. US
3. South Korea
4. India
5. Malaysia
6. Australia
7. UK
8. Germany
9. Thailand
10. UAE

Vietnam’s three largest cities led the way, with Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi and Danang drawing most of the attention from accommodation-seekers looking to visit the fast-growing Southeast Asian nation once again.  Encapsulating the best of all worlds, Vietnam has bustling cities, numerous nature parks, scenery, countryside, seascapes, culinary delights and globally renowned sites such as Halong Bay to experience up close. If that is not enough of a reason to visit Vietnam, the country’s long history and cultural nuances make it a great option to visit after a two-year international travel break.