The number of foreign visitor arrivals to the Philippines reached 1,205,013 for the first two months of 2026 combined, representing a 3.40% year-on-year increase despite the core source markets of South Korea and China continuing to decline.
Total visitor arrivals including overseas Filipinos grew by 3.09% to 1,289,521.
According to information from the Department of Tourism (DOT), the year-on-year increase in foreign visitor arrivals was achieved via decent growth from most major markets, with arrivals from the United States up 3.41% to 267,287, from Japan up 7.06% to 80,042, from Canada up 14.14% to 70,038 and from Australia up 11.55% to 64,485. These four markets ranked second through fifth in terms of largest source markets for the period in question.
South Korea remains the Philippines’ largest source market with 319,375, although this was still 8.15% lower than the same period in 2025. China also saw a 19.39% decline to 40,802, slipping to eighth on the list of source markets.
As reported by Inside Asian Gaming, the Philippines welcomed a total of 5,940,975 foreign visitors in 2025 – up 0.27% year-on-year. The DOT has since unveiled plans to ramp up its marketing efforts in South Korea from which arrivals fell 18.5% last year to 1,346,301.
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