{"id":777009037,"date":"2023-09-07T08:02:51","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T11:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777009037"},"modified":"2026-04-22T18:17:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T21:17:35","slug":"philippines-sees-record-tourist-arrivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/philippines-sees-record-tourist-arrivals","title":{"rendered":"Philippines sees record tourist arrivals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Philippines received over 3.34 million foreign visitors in the first 8 months of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>The Philippines.-\u00a0The <strong>Department of Tourism of The Philippines<\/strong>\u00a0has reported that the country received over 3.34 million visitors in the first eight months of the current year. South Korea was the largest source market, accounting for 942,637 arrivals &#8211; 25.8 per cent of all visitors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s also been reported that the largest proportion of players at Philippine casinos currently hail from South Korea. The US was the second largest source market with 632,687 arrivals (17.3 per cent), followed by Japan with 195,134 arrivals (5.3 per cent) and China with 174,328 (4.8 per cent).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities have <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/philippines-launches-e-visa-system-for-chinese-tourists-in-shanghai\" target=\"_blank\">introduced an electronic visa system<\/a>, starting with visas for Chinese visitors in late August. The system is expected to be rolled out to other visa-requiring nationalities, including Indian passport holders, by the end of 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Industry consultancy GCG Gaming Advisory Services Pty has predicted that\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/philippine-ggr-to-surpass-2019-levels-by-10-analysts-say\" target=\"_blank\">the Philippine casino sector could achieve GGR ranging from US$5.2bn to US$5.9bn for the entirety of 2023<\/a>. If this projection materializes, it would outpace the pre-pandemic figures of 2019, when GGR amounted to US$4.84bn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philippines received over 3.34 million foreign visitors in the first 8 months of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":18526,"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 over 3.34 million foreign visitors in the first eight months of the year, with South Korea being the primary source market and also contributing the largest proportion of casino players. This influx, supported by new electronic visa systems, underpins a projected 2023 GGR for the Philippine casino sector of US$5.2bn to US$5.9bn, exceeding pre-pandemic levels.","focusai_entities":"Department of Tourism of The Philippines, GCG Gaming Advisory Services Pty","focusai_location":"Philippines, South Korea, US, Japan, China, India","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.75), compliance_legal (0.7), operator_casino (0.95), marketing_crm (0.85), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.98), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Growth Drivers","query":"What specific operational or marketing strategies are Philippine casino operators implementing to capitalize on the increased influx of South Korean and other key foreign visitors, beyond the general tourism uplift?"},{"label":"E-Visa Impact","query":"How is the phased rollout of the electronic visa system expected to specifically impact the visitation numbers and GGR contribution from Chinese and Indian passport holders in 2024 and beyond, considering historical market dynamics?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16333],"tags":[23907],"class_list":["post-777009037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-land-based-casino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777009037","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=777009037"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777009037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777009064,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777009037\/revisions\/777009064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777009037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777009037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777009037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}