Some 93.4 per cent of aggregate arrivals were foreign tourists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
The Philippines.- The Department of Tourism (DOT) <\/strong>has reported that the Philippines received 2.4m international visitor arrivals<\/strong> in the first five months of the year. The figure was up 16.3 per cent from the same period last year. Some 93.4 per cent were foreign citizens, including Filipinos living overseas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n South Korea remains the country\u2019s biggest source market at 26.6 per cent or 682,362 arrivals. The figure was up 22.1 per cent when compared to last year. The United States is the second-biggest source market with 403,721 arrivals, 15.7 per cent of all arrivals. It was followed by China (168,628 visitors) and Japan (158,461)<\/p>\n\n\n\n For 2024, the Philippines aims to attract 7.7 million arrivals<\/a>. Last year, it received 5.45 million international visitors<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some 93.4 per cent of aggregate arrivals were foreign tourists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":16426,"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 Philippine Department of Tourism reported 2.4 million international visitor arrivals in the first five months of the year, marking a 16.3% year-on-year increase. Foreign citizens constituted 93.4% of these arrivals, with South Korea, the United States, China, and Japan being the leading source markets. The nation targets 7.7 million arrivals for 2024, building on 5.45 million in the preceding year.","focusai_entities":"Department of Tourism (DOT)","focusai_location":"Philippines, South Korea, United States, China, Japan","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.85), operator_casino (0.8), investor_analyst (0.95), journalist_researcher (0.75)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Integrated Resort Impact","query":"How do these robust international visitor arrival figures translate into projected GGR and non-gaming revenue growth for integrated resorts in the Philippines for the latter half of 2024?"},{"label":"Capital Allocation Strategy","query":"What strategic capital allocation adjustments are integrated resort operators and hospitality groups considering in the Philippines, given the sustained recovery and ambitious 2024 tourism targets?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16333],"tags":[23632],"class_list":["post-777016240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-integrated-resorts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777016240","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=777016240"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777016240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777016250,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777016240\/revisions\/777016250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777016240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777016240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777016240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}