ShareThisJune 11, 2010 ILOILO CITY –- Boracay has been very robust in the first four months of 2010, posting a whopping revenue of P5.3 billion in just four months.
Likewise, Boracay, famous for its white sand beach, has collected P1.86 billion (P1,863,139,206.60) worth of receipts from its tourism industry in for the month of April alone, according to the Depart- ment of Tourism.
The tourism revenue has not fallen below the one billion mark and steadily increased since January. DOT data showed that the number of tourists that visited Boracay increased by 16.19 percent in the first quarter of the year. Around 291, 443 tourists both foreign and domestic tourists visited the island as of April this year when compared with 250, 843 last year.
DOT regional director Edwin Trompeta said that Koreans, Chinese and Europeans topped that list of foreign visitors in the island. In fact Boracay had an average 20 thousand foreign tourists every month since January.
This only shows that the country is still a favorite destination among foreign vacation- ers thanks to bullish tourism programs being promoted by the DOT abroad, he said.
Trompeta said that Boracay has been a consistent tourism powerhouse in the country. He hoped that the local government of Aklan would be able to use the amount in improv- ing the schools and inroads within the island, as well as protect its environment and the Aeta community.
He said that Boracay has always been a favorite destination during summer . He cited the island’s world-class hotels and restaurants and reasonable tourism packages.
He also said that the positive support of the locales and the government’s innovation makes Boracay a formi- dable force in world tourism