Over 1.5 million tourists flocked to the Philippines’ tourist spots in the first six months of this year, official figures from the Philippine Department of Tourism has revealed.
Scandinavian and Nordic countries registered hefty percentage increases in arrivals for the first half of the year, including Denmark (24.2 percent), Finland (4.6 percent), Norway (15.4 percent) and Sweden (15.8 percent).
The Philippines’ international tourist arrivals for January to June 2007 reached 1,528,507, an increase of 7.6 percent from the 1,420,040 visitors recorded in the same period last year, the Philippine Department of Tourism (PDOT) has announced.
