{"id":40267,"date":"2015-01-29T15:51:55","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T07:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=40267"},"modified":"2015-01-29T15:51:55","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T07:51:55","slug":"dot-eyes-4-4m-tourists-in-central-visayas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/01\/29\/dot-eyes-4-4m-tourists-in-central-visayas\/","title":{"rendered":"DOT eyes 4.4M tourists in Central Visayas"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10671\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10671\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/travel-tourism-economy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10671\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/travel-tourism-economy-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"ShutterStock image\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/travel-tourism-economy-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/travel-tourism-economy-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/travel-tourism-economy.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10671\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ShutterStock image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; The Department of Tourism is expecting 4.4 million tourists in Central Visayas this year following the renewed momentum from the industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe momentum is once again on our side. We expect to post stellar growth this year as Cebu braces for more MICE (meetings, incentives, conventions and exhibitions) events,\u201d said DOT-7 regional director Rowena Montecillo.<\/p>\n<p>They are also eyeing for big ticket international meetings scheduled to be held in Cebu September this year.<\/p>\n<p>Several ministerial meetings during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit are expected to be held in Cebu this year.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from this, they are also seeing the launching of Visit Philippines Year to add to the continued growth of the tourism industry in Central Visayas.<\/p>\n<p>This, Montecillo said, will boost the tourism sector and will provide more capital for the industry&#8217;s facilities throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the lined-up events in the country, 2015 will be considered as the &#8220;best MICE year of the Philippines&#8221; according to Montecillo.<\/p>\n<p>Current DOT records showed that the region reached a total of\u00a03.4 million tourists from January-November in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>This shows a 6.86 percent increase compared with \u00a0the 3.2 million tourists recorded during the same period in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>It also has recorded a total of\u00a02,051,820 local arrivals, up by 4.96 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, foreign tourist arrivals went up by 9.57 percent with 1,360,114 arrivals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; The Department of Tourism is expecting 4.4 million tourists in Central Visayas this year following the renewed momentum &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":10671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40267","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=40267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}