PHILIPPINES - Boracay still growing as top tourism destination

manilastandardtoday.com, June 4, 2007

BORACAY Island, Aklan—International visitor arrivals to this island paradise surged 40 percent year-on-year in the first four months of 2007, attracting new investments that are expected to provide about 1,000 additional rooms and generate thousands of jobs this year.
“Of the 3,000 new rooms that are opening in 2007, about 1,000 rooms will be located in Boracay,” said Tourism Secretary Joseph Ace Durano, who visited five newly built first-class accommodation facilities.
Data from the Municipal Tourism Office of Malay, which has jurisdiction over the island, show that the number of foreign guests reached 73,110 in the first four months of 2007 alone, higher by 20,902 from 52,208 a year ago. Most of them were Koreans.

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