Cebu Pacific (CEB) reported flying nearly 110,000 passengers to Japan in only the first three months this year, exceeding the pre-pandemic level by 20 percent and nearly double the figure from the same period last year.
Tourism in 2023 played a significant role in the economy, contributing 8.6 percent to the gross domestic product, data from the Philippine Statistics Authority showed.
Tourist arrivals in the Philippines surged by 14 percent year-on-year in the first five months of this year, reaching 2.56 million, despite a double-digit decline in the arrivals of Filipinos living overseas, based on data from the Department of Tourism.