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10th November 2024

PHL posts 11.54% rise in tourist arrivals

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International visitor arrivals continue to increase with the influx of Chinese tourists, becoming the second largest in number to come to the Philippines from January to October this year. 

The trend is shown by the data released by the Department of Tourism (DOT) indicating a total of 5,474,310 international arrivals for the first 10-month period compared to 4,908,017 of the same span in 2016, a marginal increase of 11.54 percent.

DOT Secretary Wanda Corazon Tulfo-Teo said South Koreans remain the country’s top visitor market with 1,332,141 arrivals, representing 24.33 percent of the total arrivals, followed by China with 810,807 arrivals, comprising 14.81 percent of the market share.

The United States dropped to third place with 785,269 (14.34 percent) arrivals, Japan with 490,857 (8.97 percent), and Australia with 206,443 (3.77 percent).

“With the surge in Chinese and Indian arrivals, we are optimistic to hit the target of at least 6.5 million as set by the National Tourism Development Plan for 2017-2022”,  said Teo.

Compared to last year’s figures for the same period, Chinese arrivals jumped 39.28 percent, while India visitors rose 20.28 percent.

In terms of revenues, visitor receipts recorded a double-digit gain of 36.28 percent (Php 243.23 billion) for the period of January to September, a significant rise from the Php 178 billion earnings for the same period in 2016. 


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