{"id":13481,"date":"2020-01-25T06:02:41","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T06:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/queencitycebu.com\/?p=13481"},"modified":"2020-05-09T15:39:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T15:39:21","slug":"cebu-2nd-international-tourist-destination-in-jan-dec-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/queencitycebu.com\/cebu-2nd-international-tourist-destination-in-jan-dec-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Cebu 2nd Most Preferred International Tourist Destination in Jan-Dec 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
So far, data from January up to November 2019 (not the whole of 2019 yet as others have published) is showing robust 2 digit year-on-year growth of international tourist arrivals in the Philippines as a whole.
During the said period, the country hosted 7.4M foreign tourists in total which is 15.56% higher compared to the same period in 2018.
This time around, Boracay beats Cebu for the top spot with 1.6M tourist arrivals as opposed to Cebu’s 1.4M. Davao clinched the bronze here with 1.3M so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At 1.4M foreign arrivals however, Cebu is looking to have had much fewer relative to the 2018 data that said to have 2,805,115 (check here to verify<\/a>). That’s a staggering 1.4M+ in lesser with only 1 month (December of 2019) worth of data lacking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Now you might think December’s data could still push this number which is in fact true but basing from the 2018 data, it appears the December surge isn’t going to do much – maybe at most add about 200,000 only basing the 2018 trend below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n