MANILA, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- A total of 1,209,312 Chinese tourists visited the Philippines from January to August this year, nearing the total of 1,255,258 Chinese tourists visiting the country for the whole year of 2018, figures from the Department of Tourism (DOT) showed on Sunday.

The DOT said international visitor arrivals in the Philippines surged past the five million mark in August this year, boding bright prospects of attaining the tourism industry targets going into the last quarter of 2019.

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