PH draws 6M foreign tourists in 2016

SIX million foreign tourists visited the Philippines in 2016, surpassing the 5.9-million target set by the Department of Tourism (DOT) for the year and proving that the country is on its way to becoming a favored and emerging tourist destination.

“Last year, the DOT [was] targeting 5.9 million foreign tourist arrivals and we surpassed it. Now for 2017, we are targeting at 6.5 million,” Cesar Villanueva, officer-in-charge of the Tourism Promotions Board of the DOT, said on Thursday during a press conference with the Philippine Travel Agencies Association (PTAA).