{"id":187076,"date":"2018-10-26T07:02:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T11:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=187076"},"modified":"2018-10-26T07:02:51","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T11:02:51","slug":"sept-2018-arrivals-6-76","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/10\/26\/sept-2018-arrivals-6-76\/","title":{"rendered":"Sept. 2018 arrivals up by 6.76%"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_161629\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-161629\" style=\"width: 3600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Boracay-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-161629 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Boracay-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3600\" height=\"2400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Boracay-1-1.jpg 3600w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Boracay-1-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Boracay-1-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Boracay-1-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3600px) 100vw, 3600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-161629\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ranked third in terms of volume of visitors is the United States with 774,657 for the same period; placing fourth is Japan with 485,121; and fifth is Australia with 199,201. (PNA file photo by Joey Razon)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>&#8212; The foreign tourist arrivals to the Philippines in September 2018 is 6.76 percent higher than the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>At least 512,240 international tourists visited the country last month, making the overall arrivals since January this year 4,950,683, or about 8.32 percent higher than 2017.<\/p>\n<p>South Korean remains as the country&#8217;s top market with 1.18 million of their nationals visiting the Philippines from January to September 2018, followed by China with 972,550 tourists.<\/p>\n<p>Ranked third in terms of volume of visitors is the United States with 774,657 for the same period; placing fourth is Japan with 485,121; and fifth is Australia with 199,201.<\/p>\n<p>Completing the top 10 markets were Taiwan (185,278 tourists), Canada 162,658), United Kingdom (148,301), Singapore (130,674), Malaysia (109,486), Hong Kong (94,356), and India (92,589).<\/p>\n<p>In September 2018, Taiwan posted the highest growth rate with a 29.5 percent increase to 17,112 tourists last year.<\/p>\n<p>Last June, the Philippines ranked second as the most hated countries among Taiwanese, reported a Taiwanese news site, citing a Taiwan Public Opinion Foundation survey. Notably, there had been a steady increase of Taiwanese arrivals from June to September.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Shih-Pi Chou, director of the Taiwan Tourism Bureau said the Manila-Taipei tourism ties is continuously growing, with a similar increase of Filipino tourists to Taiwan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA&#8212; The foreign tourist arrivals to the Philippines in September 2018 is 6.76 percent higher than the same period last &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":162290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-travel","mauthors-joyce-ann-l-rocamora","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187076","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}