| Daily news, 01 Dec 2008 |
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MANILA – New source markets have contributed greatly to the expansion of the Philippines’ January to October tourist arrivals. Arrivals from Russia, which grew by almost 37 percent, India by 15 percent, and China by almost 10 percent, have helped increase the country’s international tourist arrivals for the first ten months of the year to over 2.6 million, a growth of four percent, year-on-year.
The influx of tourists from these new markets augmented the slowdown of growth rates from traditional source markets such as Japan and Korea, which have been affected by the financial crisis in the United States.
Visitor arrivals from ASEAN rose by 8.64 percent to 211,120 with tourists from Vietnam, Indonesia and Thailand posting 32, 11 and 10 percent growth, respectively.
The Scandinavian market consisting of Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark posted a 13-percent growth, year-on-year.
Tourists from France went up by 21 percent and the United Kingdom by 14 percent during the ten-month period as the Philippines’ tourism department pursued the launch and promotion of diving, bird watching and adventure programmes in these markets.
Tourists from the United Arab Emirates grew by 32 percent.
Despite the global crisis, arrivals from the U.S. grew by a modest 0.56 percent. |
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