{"id":127413,"date":"2017-10-30T03:08:42","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T07:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=127413"},"modified":"2017-10-30T03:08:42","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T07:08:42","slug":"calabarzon-targets-20-hike-in-2017-tourist-arrivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/30\/calabarzon-targets-20-hike-in-2017-tourist-arrivals\/","title":{"rendered":"Calabarzon targets 20% hike in 2017 tourist arrivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_127423\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-127423\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Rebecca-Villanueva-Labit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-127423\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Rebecca-Villanueva-Labit.jpg\" alt=\"In an interview, Rebecca Villanueva-Labit, director for DOT Region 4-A said tourist arrival in 2016 reached at least 26 million for same day visitors and about 5.1 million for overnight staying visitors. (Photo: Provincial Government of Laguna)\" width=\"540\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Rebecca-Villanueva-Labit.jpg 540w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Rebecca-Villanueva-Labit-300x242.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-127423\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In an interview, Rebecca Villanueva-Labit, director for DOT Region 4-A said tourist arrival in 2016 reached at least 26 million for same day visitors and about 5.1 million for overnight staying visitors. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.laguna.gov.ph\/sites\/default\/files\/DSC_0150DOTIVA.jpg\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laguna.gov.ph\/\">Provincial Government of Laguna<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>STA ROSA, Laguna\u00a0&#8212; The Department of Tourism Region IV-A expects at least 15 to 20 percent increase in tourist arrivals to Calabarzon by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview, Rebecca Villanueva-Labit, director for DOT Region 4-A said tourist arrival in 2016 reached at least 26 million for same day visitors and about 5.1 million for overnight staying visitors.<\/p>\n<p>Of this figure, overnight staying visitors accounted 4.83 million for domestic and 257,147 for foreign.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, same day arrivals shared figures of 25.57 million for domestic and 466,255 for foreign.<\/p>\n<p>For 2017, Labit said DOT targets a 15 to 20 percent brim on the 26 million visitors to the region.<\/p>\n<p>She bared that DOT Region IV-A already held several activities to reach the target, including the Tourism Plan Formulation of Real, Infanta and Gen. Nakar and Polillo Group of Islands in Quezon, Province; the agency participation to Local Travel Fairs (Phil. Travel Mart and Travel Tour Expo., Diving and Resort Travel Show, etc); the promotion of Taiwan Golf Market; and the holding of Tourism Industry Skills Program.<\/p>\n<p>Among others, the regional office also held a Farm Tourism Consultative Meeting and provided support to the Harvest Festivals in Quezon Province such as Pahiyas, Ara\u00f1a\u2019t Baluarte and Agawan Festival.<\/p>\n<p>For the remaining months of 2017, DOT Region IV-A will sponsor the 5th Anilao Underwater Photo Competition, the Calabarzon Tourism Appreciation and Award, and the launching of Bring Home A Friend regional version.<\/p>\n<p>Labit said DOT wants Calabarzon to be recognized as an excellent alternative destination for travelers who are on a budget.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to tell the people that if you are on a budget and you want to see a sea of cloud and Mt. Pulag is quite expensive for you, Calabarzon is just here, the best alternative for a lot of things,&#8221; she stressed. &#8220;We have everything, we have beach, mountain, cuisine, heritage, arts, and culture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STA ROSA, Laguna\u00a0&#8212; The Department of Tourism Region IV-A expects at least 15 to 20 percent increase in tourist arrivals &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":127423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[30374,30375,30373],"class_list":["post-127413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-travel","tag-20-hike","tag-2017-tourist-arrivals","tag-department-of-tourism-region-iv-a","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}