The figure was up 9.89 per cent in year-on-year terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
The Philippines.-\u00a0The Department of Tourism (DOT)\u00a0<\/strong>has reported that the Philippines\u00a0received 4.4 million tourist arrivals in the first nine months of the year. That\u2019s an increase of 9.89 per cent when compared to last year. Some 91.99 per cent of arrivals (4.08 million) were foreign tourists, including people classified as overseas Filipinos. This segment saw growth of 10.36 per cent compared to 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n South Korea remained the country\u2019s biggest source market, accounting for 26.9 per cent of arrivals (1.19m). The figure was up 12.1 per cent when compared to last year. The United States was the second-biggest source market with 694,142 arrivals, 15.6 per cent of all arrivals. The figure was up 1.7 per cent from the prior-year period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There were 293,658 arrivals from Japan, up 31.69 per cent in year-on-year terms, while China remained in the fourth spot<\/strong>, with 260,134 arrivals (6.6 per cent). This was a 30.27 per cent increase from last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The number of tourists from Taiwan increased by 14.8 per cent, and from India by 15.14 per cent. Vietnam had 10.5 per cent fewer visitors. Australia and Canada saw slight declines of 0.6 per cent and 3.2 per cent, respectively, in tourist numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For the full year, the Philippines aims to attract 7.7 million arrivals<\/a>. Last year, it received 5.45 million<\/a>. In July, tourism secretary Christina Garcia Frasco reported that earnings from inbound visitors<\/a> reached PHP282.17bn (US$4.83bn) in the first half.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The figure was up 9.89 per cent in year-on-year terms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":17179,"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 4.4 million tourist arrivals in the first nine months of the year, marking a 9.89% year-on-year increase, with foreign tourists accounting for 91.99% of this volume. Key source markets like South Korea, the United States, Japan, and China demonstrated robust growth, contributing to H1 tourism earnings of PHP282.17bn (US$4.83bn). The Department of Tourism targets 7.7 million arrivals for the full year, indicating a strong recovery trajectory for the nation's hospitality and integrated resort sectors.","focusai_entities":"Department of Tourism (DOT), Christina Garcia Frasco","focusai_location":"Philippines, South Korea, United States, Japan, China, Taiwan, India, Vietnam, Australia, Canada","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), operator_casino (0.9), investor_analyst (0.9), journalist_researcher (0.85), supplier_vendor (0.75)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Uplift Projections","query":"What is the projected GGR uplift for Philippine integrated resorts, considering the sustained growth in tourist arrivals and the specific performance of key source markets?"},{"label":"Operator Capital Strategy","query":"How are major integrated resort operators in the Philippines adjusting their capital expenditure and operational strategies to capitalize on the robust inbound tourism growth?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16333],"tags":[23632,23907],"class_list":["post-777019695","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\/777019695","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=777019695"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777019695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777019714,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777019695\/revisions\/777019714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777019695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777019695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777019695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}