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BY BOY RYAN ZABAL
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BORACAY – Tourists from East Asia dominated international arrivals in this island resort from January to October.
They numbered 577,234, or 78 percent of the total foreign visitors during the period.
In 2015 inbound traffic from Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong in the same 10-month period reached 459,374.
The biggest arrivals of East Asians were recorded in February (87,350), July (72,247), January (65,918), March (57,059), August (57,058), and June (50,585).
Southeast Asians — those from Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar, Brunei, Thailand, Cambodia, Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia — were the second largest market with 35,522 arrivals.
North America, or those from Mexico, the United States and Canada, ranked third with 24,998 arrivals.
The world-famous island showed no signs of slowing down to achieve its 1.7 million tourist arrival target this year.
As of October it has accommodated 1,466,746 tourists and may likely exceed its 2015 tourist arrivals by the end of November. (Aklan Forum Journal/PN)
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