Philippines tourist arrivals continued to show small year-on-year declines in April 2025, with a total of 450,493 arrivals representing a 2.0% drop from the same month last year.
According to information from the Department of Tourism (DOT), April visitation took the year-on-year drop for the first four months of 2025 to 0.83% – up from 0.5% in 1Q25. The result includes a 3.2% decline in foreign visitation to 1,933,757, offsetting a 37.5% gain in overseas Filipinos returning home to 170,815.
It also saw visitor arrivals from China and South Korea continue to drop off. Chinese visitation is down 34.4% through the first four months of 2025 to 92,659, comprising just 4.4% of the total visitation including a 36.7% fall in April to 19,994. Arrivals from South Korea are down 18.0% year-on-year to 468,337, comprising 22.3% of total visitation, including a 35.0% fall in April to 73,278.
Of other key markets, arrivals from Australia, Japan, Canada and United States all showed solid year-on-year growth while those from Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia suffered declines.
The DOT figures also reveal March as the slowest month of the year so far, continuing a steady downward ramp since 626,900 people arrived in the Philippines in January.
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