Philippine Outbound Travel: 2022

Before the pandemic, outbound tourism expenditures enjoyed a 4% CAGR between 2015 and 2019. By 2019, Filipinos spent PHP 61.4 billion in shopping overseas alone. Shopping was one of the fast-growing components of spending over a 5-year period, only second to travel agencies and reservation spending (+8% CAGR) and tied with F&B (+6%). In 2020, …

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Marriott’s first Courtyard Hotel in the Philippines to open in Iloilo City

The Courtyard by Marriott brand will make its debut in the Philippines in Iloilo City, Philippines in May. Featuring an innovative lobby space as well as Courtyard's latest contemporary room design, the Courtyard by Marriott Iloilo will feature 324 rooms. It rises in Iloilo's new central business district at Megaworld Boulevard in Mandurriao. The new …

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Filipinos made at least 5.1 million international trips in 2015

Updated on August 27, 2016 -- Have you ever wondered how many Filipinos go out of the country just to travel for leisure or business? Outbound tourism — travel made by locals to international destinations — has largely been an unknown area versus inbound tourism, which the Department of Tourism tracks. Judging from my Facebook news …

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