Visitor arrivals for the eleven-month period reached a total of 3,522,887, surpassing the 2010 year-end arrivals of 3,520,471.  This feat recorded an increase of 12.66% over its previous year’s volume of 3,126,886 covering the same months.  The biggest arrivals was registered in July with a volume of 360,784 visitors while the month of November recorded the highest growth of 19.80%.

The East Asian region accounted for almost half of the total traffic base by contributing 1,675,165 for a share of 47.55%.  This region posted an impressive 19.15% growth versus its arrivals of 1,405,940 covering the same period in 2010.  Countries from this region belonged to the top visitor markets of the Philippines with Korea providing the biggest arrivals of 839,111.  Countries from the North American region contributed 18.81% to the total inbound traffic as it provided 662,534 arrivals to the country.  The volume of visitors from this region recorded an increase of 4.94% vis-à-vis its previous year’s arrivals of 631,338.  Arrivals from Canada increased by 11.86% while arrivals from the U.S.A. grew by 3.74%. 

Countries in the ASEAN region contributed a total of 301,708 visitors, comprising 8.56% of the total visitor count.  This region posted an increase of 12.04% compared to its contribution of 269,275 visitors a year ago.  Arrivals from Australasia/Pacific aggregated to 199,622, growing by 14.59% against its arrivals of 174,203 the previous year.  This region constituted 5.67% of the total visitor volume.  The fifth biggest volume of arrivals was contributed by the Northern European region reaching 142,802 arrivals for a share of 4.05% to the total inbound traffic.  This region posted an increase of 9.53% against its arrivals of 130,376 in 2010.

The top five markets for the first eleven months of the year are Korea (839,111), U.S.A. (560,456), Japan (343,355), China (221,316) and Taiwan (168,705).

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