Average daily expenditure of foreign tourists Philippines November 2022-2023
Foreign tourists
Among foreign tourists arriving to the Philippines, South Korean travelers took the lead in 2023 with about 1.5 million travelers. This was followed by tourists from the United States at about 900 thousand travelers. Other Asian nationalities such as Japan and China also topped the list of foreign tourists arriving to the Philippines.
Contribution of tourism to the economy
As a measure of the industry's contribution to the Philippine economy, the export value of travel services was approximately 217 billion Philippine pesos in 2022. The gross valued added generated from transportation services, one of the leading expenditures in tourism, amounted to 564 billion Philippine pesos in the same year.