00:00The increase in the number of tourists recorded in the opening of the year
00:04is considered by Malacanang as an indication that the peace and order situation in the country is good.
00:09Alvin Baltazar, Radyo Pilipinas, for Balitang Pambansa.
00:15Malacanang considers that a good barometer is the increase of tourists in the country
00:19to say that the peace and order situation in the Philippines is good.
00:23The statement was made by PCO Undersecretary at Palace Press Officer Atty. Claire Castro
00:28in front of the increase in the number of tourists recorded in January 2025.
00:34Atty. Castro said that if the peace and order situation in the country is not good,
00:39the number of tourists should not decrease.
00:42This means that the number of tourists going to the Philippines is not scary
00:46because the number of foreign tourists in the first half of 2025 will increase.
00:54In fact, Atty. Castro said that the date of the COVID-19 pandemic will be January 2025
01:02if the number of foreign tourists in the Philippines increases.
01:07But because the number of tourists coming to us is increasing,
01:11the pre-COVID time has already increased.
01:19So it means that the number of tourists coming to our country is not scary.
01:24The government's income from tourism reached P65.3 billion this January.
01:311,167,108 tourists were brought to the country in the first month of the year,
01:37which is also based on the DOT record.
01:40According to Atty. Castro, they hope that the government's income from tourism
01:46will be recorded in the past month of February and the following months.
01:51It is a big thing here that the Bureau of Immigration implements a better process.
01:58Based on their latest report, we have already exceeded the pre-COVID tourism revenues.
02:04It means that the tourism revenues of this January reached P65.3 billion this year.
02:13First came the tourists from South Korea, the United States, Japan, Canada, and Australia.
02:20For Balintang Pampansa, Alvin Baltazar of Radyo Pilipinas.
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