Boracay Island reaches 1M tourist mark early this year

-The jetty port administration in Caticlan, Malay town has revealed that this island-resort has attained one million tourists earlier this year compared to last year.

Niven Maquirang, jetty port administrator, said that from Jan. 1-Oct. 22, the overall number of registered tourists in Boracay already reached 1.141 million.

Data from the jetty port indicated that a Korean tourist was the one millionth visitor on Oct. 26.

Because of the increasing number of tourists here, the Aklan provincial government is confident of reaching its target 1.5 million tourists by year- end.

Maquirang said the number of tourists could have been higher if the Taiwanese government did not declare a travel ban to the Philippines early this year. The travel ban prompted travel operators in Taiwan to cancel their Boracay reservations.

This coming Nov. 4, the Superstar Aquarius of Star Cruises will bring to Boracay thousands of tourists coming from different parts of Asia.

Last Oct. 17, SuperStar Gemini arrived in Boracay from Xiamen, China with more than 1,200 passengers.