From January 15 to 20, major tourist attractions across the island were packed with foreign visitors, while Phu Quoc International Airport and ferry terminals were bustling during peak days.
The airport handled 734 international flights between January 1 and 18, including several record-setting days with 47 inbound services. This compares with 521 flights, or an average of 33 a day, over the same period in 2025.
High traffic is expected to continue at least until the end of January 2026, driven mainly by arrivals from South Korea, China, Thailand, Kazakhstan and India.
Hotels in central Duong Dong and in the island’s southern and northern areas are fully booked ahead of the Lunar New Year or Tet holiday, with tour operators reserving capacity more than two months in advance to serve large groups.
Phu Quoc International Airport, designed to handle four million passengers a year, has been operating beyond capacity since 2024. It processed 4.1 million passengers that year and nearly 5.9 million last year, far exceeding current infrastructure limits.
Sun Group is due to take over airport operations in early 2026, with plans to expand capacity to 20 million passengers a year ahead of the APEC 2027 summit.
An Giang is among Vietnam’s leading destinations for tourism investment, having attracted 317 projects worth a combined VND 402.178 trillion (USD 15.8 billion).
Tourism has become a bright spot in the province’s socio-economic development, helping shift the local economy from agriculture towards services, according to Bui Quoc Thai, director of the An Giang Department of Tourism.
