The country is unlikely to hit its target of five million tourists this year due to damage caused by twin disasters, a tourism official said Saturday.

Domingo Enerio, chief of the Tourism Promotions Board, said that super typhoon Yolanda and the 7.1-magnitude earthquake, both of which struck Visayas, caused devastation in tourist areas, which resulted to many cancelled reservations.

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