A total of 2,905,363 international tourists arrived in the country in the first six months of this year, the Department of Tourism (DOT) disclosed on Thursday, Jun. 26. DOT Secretary Christina Garcia-Frasco said the agency is recalibrating its year-end target in view of global uncertainties and...
Partido Demokratiko Pilipino (PDP-Laban) senatorial candidate Raul Lambino said on Monday, March 10, that economic relations between the Philippines and China “remain very strong” with an increasing number of Chinese tourists visiting Manila despite ongoing tensions in the West Philippine Sea....
Malacañang believes that the Philippines' increasing tourism revenues are proof of the improved peace and order situation in the country, contrary to claims of the administration's critics. Communications Undersecretary Claire Castro (RTVM) Palace Press Officer and Communications Undersecretary...
By TARA YAP ILOILO CITY – The Department of Tourism-6 reported that Western Visayas earned more than P70 billion from tourism in 2023. The Sun sets at world-famous Boracay Island. (Tara Yap) The region also registered a 22.8 percent growth in tourist arrivals with 5.36 million visiting key...
President Marcos reported that the Philippines has made an impressive recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic after it recorded 5.45 million tourists entering the country in 2023, double the number of inbound tourists in 2022. President Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr. (Noel Pabalate) Marcos said...
BUTUAN CITY – The Department of Tourism-Caraga said 1,442,032 foreign and domestic tourists visited the region last year. Caraga earned P17.3 million from these visitors – P16.5 million from domestic and P759,000 from foreign tourists who accounted for 4.4 percent of the total arrivals in 2023....
Tourism in La Union continues to recover from the pandemic as more than 550,000 tourists visited the province in 2023. SURFERS in Barangay Urbiztondo, San Juan, La Union. (Freddie G. Lazaro) The provincial government said 550,359 tourists visited La Union last year, an 11 percent increase...
CEBU CITY – Tourist arrivals in Bohol reached more than one million in 2023, exceeding the province’s target for the year. A STRAWBERRY farm in Bohol is one of the province’s top tourist destinations. The tourism office reported that more than one million tourists visited Bohol last year....
ILOILO CITY – World-famous Boracay Island has surpassed its target of 1.8 million tourist arrivals even before the year has come to a close. THE sun sets at world-famous Boracay Island. (Tara Yap) The Malay-Boracay Tourism Office said 1.82 million tourists visited the resort-island in...
ILOILO CITY – A total of 139,008 tourists visited world-famous Boracay Island in Malay, Aklan last month. THE Sun sets at world-famous Boracay Island. (Tara Yap) The Malay Tourism Office said October arrivals are 14,517 more than the 124,491 visitors last September. The number is also...
Japan has recorded the most number of foreign tourists coming from the Philippines among Southeast Asian countries in July this year, a post from Japanese Ambassador to the Philippines Koshikawa Kazuhiko said on Monday, Sept. 4. People walk through a crossing in the Shinjuku area of Tokyo on...
International tourist arrivals in the country beached the three million mark while tourism receipts surged to P212.47 billion, the Department of Tourism (DOT) reported Wednesday, July 19. Latest data from the DOT recorded a total of 3,000,079 international visitor arrivals from January 1 to July...
