Visitor arrivals to Philippines up 10% in first five months of 2019, arrivals from China up 31%

9 July, 2019

Philippines Department of Tourism, via its official Facebook account, reported (08-Jul-2019) visitor arrivals to Philippines for May-2019 and the five months ended May-2019. Details include:

  • May-2019:
    • Visitor arrivals: 621,719, +15.6% year-on-year;
  • Five months ended May-2019:
    • Visitor arrivals: 3.5 million, +9.8%;
      • South Korea: 788,530, +11.8%;
      • China: 733,769, +31.0%;
      • US: 472,469, +2.0%;
      • Japan: 281,988, +2.2%;
      • Taiwan: 128,986, +27.2%;
      • Australia: 123,851, +2.7%;
      • Canada: 114,605, +5.0%;
      • UK: 92,914, +3.5%;
      • Singapore: 64,951, -14.4%;
      • Malaysia: 62,144, +1.8%.