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BY BOY RYAN B. ZABAL
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BORACAY – The island destination is on track to achieve its target of 1.7 million tourists this year, says the Department of Tourism (DOT).
From January to September, the number of tourist arrivals already reached 79 percent of the 2016 target.
For the first three quarters, tourist arrivals reached 1,348,064, up by 12.36 percent compared to 1,199,740 last year. To reach its goal, the famous island resort needs to accommodate 360,000 more tourists from October to December.
Last year, tourist arrivals for the last three months of 2015 recorded 360,366 visitors, of the number 196,213 were foreigners.
According to DOT, international visitors also increased by double-digits, 18.88 percent, to 681,612 compared to arrivals of 573,347 for the same months last year.
Korea, China, Taiwan, Malaysia and United States dominated the inbound source markets with 557,109 arrivals, or 81.73 percent of the total volume.
About 36 percent of total foreign arrivals from January to September were Koreans or 245,098. China came in second with a 33 percent share at 227,171 visitors. Inbound tourists from Taiwan totaled 46,142, Malaysia with 21,266 followed closely by the US with 17,432.
Tourist traffic from East Asian countries of Hong Kong, China, Korea, Taiwan and Japan also accounted for 78 percent of inbound volume or 531,805 arrivals for the first nine months this year.
Out of the total arrivals, domestic tourists also registered at 632,485, 6.7 percent higher than the previous year’s 592,722 arrivals./PN
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