International visitor arrivals in 46 Asia Pacific destinations up in 2018
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More than 708 million international tourists visited 46 Asia Pacific countries in 2018 achieving a 7.3 per cent annual increase compared to 2017 .
The 46 Asia Pacific destinations have collectively seen their international visitor arrivals (IVAs) increase by almost 24 per cent adding more than 136 million additional arrivals to the collective foreign inbound count in the process over the five years between 2014 and 2018, according to the Annual Travel Monitor 2019 Final Edition (ATM) released by the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) .
In percentage increase terms between 2017 and 2018, Asia had the strongest annual increase at 8.7 per cent, followed by the Pacific at four percent and the Americas at 3.5 percent.
By annual increase in the absolute volume of foreign arrivals between 2017 and 2018 however, these positions changed somewhat, with Asia receiving close to 41.6 million additional foreign arrivals, followed by the Americas with a gain of over 5.4 million and the Pacific with just over one million additional foreign arrivals received over that period.
Within the Americas, North America showed the strongest incremental increase in foreign arrivals between 2017 and 2018, capturing more than 55 percent of the 5.446 million increase over that period, followed next by Central America.
Across Asia it was Northeast Asia in particular that captured the largest proportion of additional foreign arrivals into the region between 2017 and 2018 . Polynesia and Oceania dominated that landscape in the Pacific.
Of the 46 destinations covered in the report, more than a quarter (26 per cent), had annual volume increases of more than one million IVAs each, while close to 37 per cent had more than half a million apiece.
October 15 , 2019
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