By Lorenzo Bukas / Facebook
With 1,034,396 tourist arrivals in 2018, the US ranked third among the nationalities visiting our country according to the official data of DTI. That is 1/3 of all the 3.3M American tourists who visited ASEAN last year according to the ASEAN website.
With Philippines ranking sixth out of ten with only 5.4M tourists, and trailing far behind our neighbors:
• Thailand - 1st with 29.8M tourists
• Malaysia - 2nd with 25.7M tourists
• Singapore - 3rd with 15.2M tourists
• Indonesia - 4th with 10.4M tourists
• Vietnam - 5th with 7.9M tourists
it would be easy to imagine that our current share of US Tourists could easily shift to better and more-preferred destinations in the region.
According to Philippine Statistics Authority, Tourism makes up 12.7% of the total Philippine GDP, and our total GDP increases on an average of 6% only per year. The loss of the 12.7% in our GDP will eventually cancel out our 6% growth.
Bottomline, with our tourism ranking, we can’t afford to lose a sizable portion of tourist arrivals and eventual business. (Data Source: DTI, PSA and ASEAN)
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