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Visitor Arrivals to the Philippines Reached Record-High
4.3 Million in 2012
A new milestone for Philippine tourism was achieved as arrivals
to the country
reached 4,272,811 visitors which recorded a 9.07% increase from
the 3,917,454tourists who came in 2011. It was the first time that
the country passed the 4
milliontharrivals.
Koreacontinue to bethe countryslargest visitormarket with
1,031,155arrivals,
accounting for24.13% shareof the totalvisitor volume.The
saidmarket rose by11.45% from itsarrivals of925,204 in
2011. Anotherrecord was achieved by the tourism industry as it
is the first time that a sourcemarket of the Philippines reached
its 1 millionth visitor.
Three key markets of the country have surpassed its target
arrival for the yearin review, namely, Japan which provided 412,474
visitors which is 3.86% higher thanits target of 397,141;Taiwan,
surpassing10.46% of its arrivaltarget of 196,008 byregistering
216,511
arrivals; and Russiawhich recorded22.12% morearrivals than
itstarget of 23,149.
The featcontinue as somemarkets recordeddouble-digit
gainshighlighted by
Russia whichrecorded a 40.05%increase from 20,185 in 2011 to
28,270 in 2012. Malaysia likewise experienced highgrowth rate of
24.81% by producing 114,513 arrivals vis-a-vis its 2011 arrivals
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91,752. Australia grew by 11.96% by contributing 191,150
arrivals against itsprevious years volume of 170,736.
Record shows that all major markets of the country registered
growth inarrivals. Following the Korean market, the US market
constituted 15.27% of the
total inbound traffic by producing 652,626 visitors to the
Philippines. This figure is upby 4.50% from 624,527 in 2011.
The Chinese market provided 250,883 visitors or 5.87% of the
total. It showeda moderate increase of 3.19% over 2011s volume
of243,137 arrivals.
Other markets with substantial contribution to the overall
visitor arrivals includeSingapore with 148,215 arrivals, Canada
with 123,699 arrivals, Hong Kong with118,666 arrivals, United
Kingdom with 113,282 and Germany with 67,023 arrivals.
Prepared by: Tourism Research and Statistics Division, Office of
Tourism Planning, Research and InformationManagement, Tourism
Planning and Promotions Sector, DEPARTMENT OF
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