Mideast tourist arrivals up 57 percent in Cebu

Middle Eastern visitors continue to be a lucrative market for tourism in Cebu, officials and tourism stakeholders said yesterday.

Regional Director Maria Rica Bueno of the Department of Tourism in Central Visayas (DOT-7) said their figures showed that Middle East tourist arrivals grew an average of 57.1 percent in Cebu from 2005 to 2009.

Last year’s 10,803 visitors was a substantial increase from the 4,711 tourists in 2008, Bueno said. Read more…