International visitor arrivals to the Philippines breached the 1.2-million mark in the first two months of 2024.
Secretary Christina Garcia Frasco of the Department of Tourism (DOT) made the announcement at the Philippine Pavilion of the Internationale Tourismus-Bí¶rse (ITB) 2024 Convention in Berlin, Germany on March 5.

The DOT also reported that based on data from the Visitor Sample Survey, estimated visitor receipts for January have totaled $652.26 million, or 4.84 percent higher than the $622.14 million in the same month in 2023.
Based on the DOT’s report for January to March 5, international tourist arrivals to the Philippines have tallied 1,227,815.
Foreign tourist arrivals took the lion’s share, with 1,160,129 or 94.49 percent. Meanwhile, 67,686 or 5.51 percent consist of returning overseas Filipinos.
According to Frasco, this is 22.86 percent higher than the 999,390 arrivals received by the country in the same period in 2023.
South Korea remains the country’s top source market for visitors with 349,956 or 28.50 percent of the total, followed by the United States with 195,603 or 15.93 percent, China with 85,876 (6.99 percent), Japan with 73,159 (5.96 percent), and Canada landing on the fifth spot with 50,555 (4.12 percent).
Australia took the sixth spot with 50,488 (4.11 percent), Taiwan with 42,955 (3.50 percent), United Kingdom with 30,507 (2.48 percent), Singapore with 25,253 (2.06 percent), and Germany with 20,816 (1.70 percent).
Notably,
In 2023, the Philippines received over 5.45 million international visitors, breaching the 4.8 million arrivals target. This year, the target is 7.7 million.
Frasco is in Germany to lead the DOT and the Tourism Promotions Board (TPB) Philippines in bringing the country’s biggest delegation yet to the ITB 2024, the world’s largest travel trade show.