{"id":13823,"date":"2017-03-06T13:30:42","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T05:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=13823"},"modified":"2017-03-06T11:19:41","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T03:19:41","slug":"tourist-influx-surges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2017\/03\/06\/tourist-influx-surges\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourist influx surges"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">MANILA, March 6 &#8211; More foreign tourists have arrived in the Philippines this year, staying for more days and spending more money, as indicated by the data collected by the country\u2019s Department of Tourism (DOT) for the month of January.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-13824\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/03\/news4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/03\/news4.png 769w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/03\/news4-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/03\/news4-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/03\/news4-90x90.png 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">DOT Secretary Wanda Tulfo-Teo on Wednesday disclosed that January arrivals totaled 631,639.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">This reflects an \u201cimpressive growth\u201d of 16.48 percent from the 542,258 sum for the first month of 2016, generating a sum of Php 21.681 million in receipts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">&#8220;\u201cWe have to keep the momentum going now that we are in the implementation phase of the Tourism Development Plan for 2017-2022, which aims to unleash the potentials of our tourism industry and make it more competitive,\u201d said Teo, referring to the impetus gained in the country\u2019s successful hosting of the Miss Universe pageant last January 30.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pia.gov.ph\/news\/articles\/1141488637755\" target=\"_blank\">Read full story<\/a> on PIA<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, March 6 &#8211; More foreign tourists have arrived in the Philippines this year, staying for more days and spending more money, as indicated by the data collected by the country\u2019s Department of Tourism (DOT) for the month of January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2580],"tags":[457],"class_list":["post-13823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-news-source","tag-tourism"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/03\/news4.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13825,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13823\/revisions\/13825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}