{"id":85923,"date":"2017-01-19T17:47:29","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T22:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=85923"},"modified":"2017-01-19T17:47:29","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T22:47:29","slug":"phl-foreign-tourist-arrivals-at-5-39-m-from-jan-nov-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/01\/19\/phl-foreign-tourist-arrivals-at-5-39-m-from-jan-nov-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"PHL foreign tourist arrivals at 5.39-M from Jan-Nov 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_85924\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85924\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/13325622_1367242703302598_1647433274264683364_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85924\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/13325622_1367242703302598_1647433274264683364_n.jpg\" alt=\"Asked whether reports that the Philippines (Pictured)  has missed its target of 6 million tourist arrivals by end of 2016 were true, Bengzon said the agency has yet to get final figures. (Photo: Department of Tourism\/ Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/13325622_1367242703302598_1647433274264683364_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/13325622_1367242703302598_1647433274264683364_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/13325622_1367242703302598_1647433274264683364_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/13325622_1367242703302598_1647433274264683364_n-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-85924\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asked whether reports that the Philippines (Pictured) has missed its target of 6 million tourist arrivals by end of 2016 were true, Bengzon said the agency has yet to get final figures. (Photo:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/DepartmentOfTourism\/\"> Department of Tourism\/ Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013The continued efforts of the Department of Tourism (DOT) to improve tourism promotions has pushed foreign tourist arrivals to 5.39 million from January to November 2016.<\/p>\n<p>DOT Undersecretary Benito Bengzon Jr. said this figure is a 12.12 percent growth compared to the number of visitors it acquired in the same period in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe now have 5.39-million foreign visitors for the first 11 months (of 2016) representing a growth rate of 12.12 percent,\u201d Bengzon said in a text message.<\/p>\n<p>He said the top three markets Korea, USA and Japan posted double digit growth rates and contributed heavily to achieving the highest ever 11-month production for the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippines also registered double digit growth for Taiwan, United Kingdom, Canada, and India.<\/p>\n<p>He further said that more tourists have entered the country through secondary gateways.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have maintained the momentum and continue to drive tourist traffic particularly to the secondary gateways,\u201d Bengzon said.<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether reports that the Philippines has missed its target of 6 million tourist arrivals by end of 2016 were true, Bengzon said the agency has yet to get final figures.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, DOT targets 6.5 million tourist arrivals by year-end through the staging of international events such as the Miss Universe pageant, ASEAN@50, Madrid Fusion Manila, among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013The continued efforts of the Department of Tourism (DOT) to improve tourism promotions has pushed foreign tourist arrivals to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":85924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95,79],"tags":[3487,343,336],"class_list":["post-85923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","category-travel","tag-department-of-tourism","tag-philippines","tag-tourism","mauthors-azer-n-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85923","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=85923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}