Over 1.5 million tourists flocked to the Philippines’ tourist spots in the first six months of this year, official figures from the Philippine Department of Tourism has revealed.
The Philippines’ international tourist arrivals for January to June 2007 reached 1,528,507, an increase of 7.6 percent from the 1,420,040 visitors recorded in the same period last year, the Philippine Department of Tourism (PDOT) has announced.
Based on statistics released by the PDOT’s main office in Manila, the UK government’s travel warning against the Philippines has not stopped Britons from traveling to the Philippines, which increased by 41.2 percent in the month of June alone.
The overall British arrivals from January to June posted a positive growth rate of 15.4 percent. The UK market went up to 37,665 from 32,645 over the first six months of the year, PDOT said. London is on its way to breaking the 70,000 barrier for the first time since year 2000.
Scandinavian and Nordic countries registered hefty percentage increases in arrivals for the first half of the year, including Denmark (24.2 percent), Finland (4.6 percent), Norway (15.4 percent) and Sweden (15.8 percent).
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on Sep 4th, 2007 at 10:00 am
[...] Lakbay Pilipinas focuses on the 1.5 million tourists who visited the Philippines during the first half of the year. [...]
on Sep 7th, 2007 at 2:24 pm
What is nice to see is that tourism from all countries is growing in the Philippines, with the exception of Taiwan and Japan arrivals. You had 10% more Germans, 17% more Koreans, etc. I wish we had such nice figures in Italy!