PH Tourist Arrivals from China Expected to Rise with More Xiamen-Manila Cruise Tours
(From left) COSTA Cruises Shipping Services Co. Vice President for Sales and Commercial Bernie Ye, Philippine Consul General to Xiamen Julius Caesar A. Flores, Xiamen Cruise Homeport Group General Manager Huang Yubin, and Xiamen West Bay Cruise City Investment Ltd. Vice President and General Manager Zhang Hai Jun. (Xiamen PE photo)
XIAMEN 30 July 2018 – Philippine Consul General to Xiamen Julius Caesar A. Flores recently met with Vice President for Sales/Commercial of COSTA Cruises Shipping Services Bernie Ye, General Manager of Xiamen Cruise Homeport Group Huang Yubin, and Vice President and General Manager of Xiamen West Bay Cruise City Investment Zhang Hai Jun, to discuss the forthcoming scheduled cruise tours from Xiamen to the Philippines.
The cruise organizers were given assurances of the Consulate’s full support and cooperation, especially with the visa needs of their cruise passengers. The meeting also gave the cruise organizers the opportunity to discuss with Consul General Flores some requests and concerns pertaining to their forthcoming cruise tours to the Philippines.
Meanwhile, COSTA Cruise and Golden Spring Tourism Group recently held its press conference at the Conrad Hotel in Xiamen City, where they officially announced the schedules of cruise tours to Asia from Xiamen for 2018.
A total of 14 cruise tours are scheduled by its Atlantica cruise ship from 20 October to 13 December 2018, seven of which are going to the Philippines.
The destinations of the other seven cruise tours include Japan, Vietnam, and Hong Kong. COSTA Atlantica has a capacity of 2680 passengers per ship.
Chinese tourist arrivals in the Philippines is expected to further increase in the coming years as cruise tourism continues to gain grounds in China, particularly in Xiamen City and Fujian Province, coupled by the Consulate’s strong tourism campaign as part of its economic diplomacy thrusts. END
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