Accor to Debut 400 Movenpicks in China

STR reported that China hotel RevPAR for the week ending July 15 was up 40.6% year over year. The results were up against a decline of -18.3% a year ago. When compared to the week in 2019, RevPAR was up 8.3%.

The Philippines has reached its 3 million international visitor arrivals mark as of July 19. The Department of Tourism said that from January 1 to July 19, the Philippines recorded 3,000,079 international visitor arrivals. The country's inbound tourism receipts in the first six months of 2023 rose to P212,467,522,100.14, up 502% from last year. Regarding visitor arrivals, the DOT said 91.36% are foreign tourists, with the remaining 8.64% being overseas Filipinos. South Korea led the foreign arrivals with 24.72%, followed by residents from the US at 18.35%. Far below in third place were Australians at 4.87%. China has not picked up steam as expected, only registering 129,077 visitors or 4.30%, not even in the top 5 yet.

The Macau Sta