{"id":167642,"date":"2018-06-22T01:53:37","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T05:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=167642"},"modified":"2018-06-22T01:53:37","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T05:53:37","slug":"palace-hails-63-higher-cruise-calls-for-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/06\/22\/palace-hails-63-higher-cruise-calls-for-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Palace hails 63% higher cruise calls for 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_167643\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-167643\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Luxury-cruise-2017.11.21_5b2c25b7f31230_80675668-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-167643\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Luxury-cruise-2017.11.21_5b2c25b7f31230_80675668-1.jpg\" alt=\"HIGHER CRUISE CALLS. Cruise arrivals in the country increased 63 percent, with 140 visits in 2017 as compared to 72 in 2016. (PNA file photo)\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Luxury-cruise-2017.11.21_5b2c25b7f31230_80675668-1.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Luxury-cruise-2017.11.21_5b2c25b7f31230_80675668-1-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-167643\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">HIGHER CRUISE CALLS. Cruise arrivals in the country increased 63 percent, with 140 visits in 2017 as compared to 72 in 2016. (PNA photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Malaca\u00f1ang on Thursday hailed the 63 percent higher cruise calls that the Department of Tourism (DOT) achieved in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am pleased to announce that the Philippines remains to be a tourist hub for local and foreign visitors,\u201d Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said during a Palace press briefing.<\/p>\n<p>Cruise arrivals in the country reached 140 in 2017, with a total of 195,751 passengers.<\/p>\n<p>The number is 63 percent higher compared to 72 calls in 2016, and even better than the 105 cruise calls target with 117,000 passengers.<\/p>\n<p>Roque said the DOT agencies are \u201coptimistic\u201d to welcome 190 cruise calls in the country this year, with 329,000 passengers.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, he announced in the same media briefing that the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has reported a 12.9 percent year-on-year increase in the April 2018 remittances from overseas Filipino workers, which reached USD2.6 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Roque said the figure is higher compared to the USD2.32-billion worth of remittances recorded in the same month in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis growth reflects a 17-month high rebound in the personal remittances from 18.4 percent growth in November of 2016,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Roque said January to April recorded remittances amounting to PHP10.4 billion, which is already 4 percent higher than the PHP10.03 billion remittances in the same period last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Malaca\u00f1ang on Thursday hailed the 63 percent higher cruise calls that the Department of Tourism (DOT) achieved in 2017. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":167643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-jelly-musico","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167642","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=167642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}