The country received 2.64 million visitors in the first half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
The Philippines.- The Department of Tourism (DOT)<\/strong> in The Philippines has announced that the country received 2.64 million tourists in the first half of 2023. That’s more than its target for all of 2022 (1.7 million).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Leading the visitor markets was South Korea, contributing to nearly one-quarter of arrivals. It was followed by the United States and Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Philippines has rebranded its tourism campaigns with a new promotional slogan “Love the Philippines”. <\/strong>However a recent video caused controversy by including footage of other countries passed off as the Philippines. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Philippines\u00a0lifted the majority of Covid-19 restrictions<\/a>\u00a0in March 2022, a measure which also\u00a0helped casino revenue<\/a>.\u00a0The nation’s National Development Plan aims for 4.8 million tourists this year<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The country received 2.64 million visitors in the first half.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":20663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Philippines recorded 2.64 million tourist arrivals in H1 2023, exceeding its full-year 2022 target, with South Korea, the US, and Australia as primary visitor markets. This robust recovery, following the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions in March 2022, has positively impacted the nation's casino revenue. The Department of Tourism aims for 4.8 million tourists by year-end, despite a recent promotional campaign controversy.","focusai_entities":"Department of Tourism (DOT)","focusai_location":"Philippines, South Korea, United States, Australia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.85), regulator (0.75), compliance_legal (0.7), operator_casino (0.95), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.8)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Casino Revenue Impact","query":"What specific GGR uplift has been observed in Philippine integrated resorts directly attributable to the H1 2023 tourism surge, and how does this compare to pre-pandemic performance metrics?"},{"label":"Investment Outlook","query":"Given the robust tourism recovery, what are the revised capital expenditure plans or M&A opportunities being considered by major gaming operators and capital market participants in the Philippines?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16333],"tags":[23632,23907],"class_list":["post-777006987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-integrated-resorts","tag-land-based-casino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777006987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777006987"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777006987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777007015,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777006987\/revisions\/777007015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777006987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777006987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777006987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}