MANILA, Sept 30 (NNN-PNA) – Over four million foreign tourists, including more than 194,000 Chinese nationals, have visited the Philippines since Jan this year, the Philippines’ Department of Tourism (DOT) said, yesterday.
Philippine Tourism Secretary, Christina Frasco, said, the country has earned 316 billion pesos (roughly 5.59 billion U.S. dollars) in revenue as of yesterday, Sept 29.
“We are very close to our target of 4.8 million international visitors by the end of this year,” Frasco said.
South Korea ranked the first, in terms of the country’s top source markets, delivering more than a quarter of the total international arrivals to the country, followed by the United States, Japan, China and Australia.– NNN-PNA
