22/01/2024
tara na sa PALAWAN...be part of 2024 😃
𝗣𝗔𝗟𝗔𝗪𝗔𝗡 𝗟𝗢𝗚𝗦 𝟭.𝟱-𝗠 𝗧𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗜𝗦𝗧 𝗔𝗥𝗥𝗜𝗩𝗔𝗟𝗦 𝗜𝗡 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯; 𝗧𝗢𝗨𝗥𝗜𝗦𝗠 𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗘𝗜𝗣𝗧𝗦 𝗦𝗢𝗔𝗥 𝗧𝗢 𝗣𝟱𝟳.𝟮-𝗕
The Palawan Provincial Tourism Office has recorded about 1,527,159 tourists arrival in the province, showing an 87.47% growth rate from a total of 814,621 of the preceding year. Out of the total arrivals, 873,592 are domestic tourists while 653,567 are foreign recording an estimated tourism receipts of P57.2-Billion.
El Nido town remains on top of having the most number of arrivals at 518,385 followed by the municipalities of Coron with 236,860, San Vicente with 85,975, Brooke’s Point 27,264, and Linapacan with 27,136. USA top ranks in the foreign arrivals, shadowed by France, Germany, United Kingdom, and Spain.
In an interview on Radyo Pilipinas Palawan with Gilian Faye Ibañez on Friday, January 19, Provincial Tourism Officer Maribel C. Buñi said this year’s arrival have exceeded the “conventional level” of 10-20% expected growth rate.
“Ang forecast po natin ay at the conventional level na 10 to 20% [growth rate]. Maganda na we have exceeded that although from 2021-2022, medyo tumaas na rin po talaga but in 2023, maganda ‘yung padating o bilang ng mga turista and hopefully by 2024 o 2025 mapantayan po natin ‘yung 2019 arrivals kasi ‘yun po ‘yung ating benchmark –we are at our highest in 2019,” Buñi said.
In 2019, the arrivals ballooned to 1,987,605, then dropped to 318K in 2020, and 64K in 2021, at the height of coronavirus pandemic.
𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝗲𝗿𝗮
“Nakita natin ‘yung sinasabi ng ating mga tourism experts na revenge travel o revenge travelers –gustong-gustong magbiyahe ng mga tao,” she added.
She said revenge travel has contributed a lot in the 2023 arrivals as tourists eager to travel following the removal of travel restrictions since 2022.
“With the trend of tourist arrivals in 2023, we can say that we are rising from the pandemic,” the Tourism Chief said in a separate statement (read full statement: https://bitly.ws/3aru7).
This year, the Provincial Tourism Office set a baseline target of 1.9-M tourist arrivals.
