Published on : Friday, June 14, 2019
From January to May 2019, the figures showed that the Chinese tourists that visited Boracay increased by 46 percent from the 148,964 Chinese tourist arrivals recorded in the same time last year.
Without a doubt, to Boracay, the tourism office explained that the Chinese mainland is the biggest source of visitors for well-known beaches with unsullied fine talcum powder-sand beaches, sapphire seas and spectacular sunset.
Also, the local tourism office said new airline routes and warmer Philippine ties with China have boosted Chinese tourist arrivals to Boracay.
South Korea is second to China is with 160,973 arrivals, up by 7 percent from 150,876 in the first five months of 2018.
The United States with 12,424 tourist arrivals become third, the data showed.
As per the data, from January to May 2019, a total of 955,984 overseas and local tourists visited Boracay, 9 percent more than the 947,343 recorded in the same period in 2018.
For six months last year, Boracay, which is the island-resort belongs to the municipality of Malay in Aklan Province, was closed to give way to a massive clean-up and rehabilitation of the island.
The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) explained tourism managed to contribute 12.7 percent to the Philippines’ gross domestic product (GDP) in 2018, up 0.5 percent from 12.2 percent in 2017.