VNExpress-Sept 29

Vietnam’s tourist hub Ho Chi Minh City ranked fifth on the list of 10 most viewed cities on social media platform TikTok with 32.6 million hits. New York topped the list with 114 million views, followed by Seoul (106.5 million), Dubai (62.7 million) and Jakarta (37.1 million), leading American media company Refinery29 reported, citing a new study carried out by U.K.-based branded clothing company Superdry by analyzing #travel and various related hashtags on TikTok videos. HCMC, famed for its French colonial heritages, received over 8.6 million foreign visitors in 2019, up 13 percent from a year prior. After over four months of closure, the city, now a Covid epicenter in Vietnam, plans to reopen tourist destinations, hotels and resorts from early October as part of its gradual economic reopening roadmap. Vietnam also ranked sixth on the list of 10 most viewed countries on TikTok with 107 million hits behind Japan, Russia, Mexico, the U.S. and China.

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