MANILA — The Department of Tourism (DOT) on Wednesday released its latest data on Philippine travel and tourism performance, citing an 88.67 percent jump on visitor receipts for October 2017 compared to the same period in 2016.
Receipts for the month of October aggregated to about PHP31.123 billion, almost doubling the earnings in October 2016 of about PHP16.496 billion.
According to DOT-Office of Tourism Development Planning, Research and Information Management (OTDPRIM), the Average Daily Expenditure (ADE) for the month in review is PHP6,862.03.
The Average Length of Stay (ALoS) of tourists in the country is recorded at 7.87 nights for the same period.
Meanwhile, Average per Capita Expenditure of visitors for the month is pegged at PHP54,004.19.
China is the top spending market for two months with receipts amounting to about PHP9.95 billion.
On the other hand, visitors from Korea registered an accumulated spending market of about PHP9 billion.
United States placed third with almost PHP2.48 billion spent followed by Taiwan with estimated PHP2.28 billion spending and Japan with PHP1.5 billion.
High spending markets Hong Kong, France, Germany and Poland recorded more than 200 million expenditures in the country.
Among the top 20 markets, DOT noted that China registered the highest per capita expenditure for two consecutive months at PHP110,577.80.
Taiwan followed with PHP107,413.18 per capita spending.
Top market Korea recorded per capita expenditure of PHP64,619.67.
Top markets with high per capita spending include France with PHP63,525.13 and Spain with PHP53,371.62.
From January to October 2017, generated earnings from tourism activities accumulated to a total of PHP274,351.04 billion.
The month of July recorded the biggest receipts of PHP33.53 billion while the month of September registered the highest growth of 117.23 percent. (Joyce Ann L. Rocamora/PNA)
