The total is approaching the government\u2019s full-year goal of 4.8 million arrivals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
The Philippines.- The\u00a0Department of Tourism of The Philippines\u00a0(DOT) has reported that the country recorded nearly 4.1 million foreign arrivals in the first ten months of the year. That’s coming close to the full-year target of 4.8 million arrivals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
South Korea was the biggest source of inbound tourists, contributing nearly 1.2 million, or 26.3 per cent of all arrivalsa. The United States accounted for 16.7 per cent, or 742,295 visitors, followed by Japan with 247,674 (5.57 per cent), China with 223,411 arrivals (5.03 per cent), Australia with 207,366 (4.66 per cent), and Canada with 180,625 (4.06 per cent).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Authorities introduced an electronic visa system<\/a>, starting with visas for Chinese visitors in late August and the validity of eVisas has been expanded for some nationalities. Industry consultancy GCG Gaming Advisory Services has predicted that the Philippine casino sector could achieve GGR\u00a0ranging from US$5.2bn to US$5.9bn for 2023<\/a>. This would outpace pre-pandemic figures from 2019 (US$4.84bn).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The total is approaching the government\u2019s full-year goal of 4.8 million arrivals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":21794,"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' Department of Tourism reported nearly 4.1 million foreign arrivals in the first ten months of the year, approaching the 4.8 million full-year target. This tourism surge, supported by an expanded e-visa system, is projected to drive the Philippine casino sector's Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) to between US$5.2bn and US$5.9bn for 2023, surpassing pre-pandemic levels.","focusai_entities":"Department of Tourism of The Philippines, GCG Gaming Advisory Services","focusai_location":"The Philippines, South Korea, United States, Japan, China, Australia, Canada","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (0.95), marketing_crm (0.75), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Growth Sustainability?","query":"What specific policy initiatives beyond the e-visa system are being considered to sustain or accelerate inbound tourism growth and further bolster the gaming sector's GGR?"},{"label":"Geopolitical Impact on Tourism?","query":"How might the evolving geopolitical landscape or economic conditions in key source markets (e.g., China, South Korea) impact the sustainability of these tourism and GGR growth trajectories?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16333],"tags":[23907],"class_list":["post-777010913","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\/777010913","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=777010913"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777010913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777041012,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777010913\/revisions\/777041012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777010913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777010913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777010913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}