Based on data from Hana Tour, the nation’s leading tour agency, the number of travellers to the region in July increased by 40.2 per cent from the same period last year, following China (92.3 per cent) and Japan (48.3 per cent).

In the month, the number of its clients going abroad came to 289,000 last month, up 43.3 per cent from the same month last year.