(VOVWORLD) - Phu Quoc island city in the southern province of Kien Giang and Nha Trang city in the southcentral province of Khanh Hoa are among the three most popular international destinations for South Korean tourists, according to a survey unveiled by Korean news outlet Rankify Korea.
 A view of Nha Trang beach (photo: laodong.vn/ Vuong Manh Cuong) |
The newswire made use of an extensive data analysis programme to calculate the search volume of Google Trend Index and Naver in the first week of July and then compared it with the last week of June.
The results showed that the leading destination was Phu Quoc, followed by Nha Trang and Tokyo in Japan. Most notably, Phu Quoc is more popular among female Korean tourists, accounting for 67% of the survey’s data, while the percentage stood at 64% for Nha Trang.
Other cities featured on the list of the top 15 destinations for Korean travelers were Bangkok and Phuket of Thailand, Kuala Lumpur of Malaysia, Nagoya of Japan, Barcelona of Spain, Kyoto of Japan, Hanoi of Vietnam, Paris of France, New York of the United States, Sydney of Australia, Shanghai of China, and Munich of Germany.