Internal Tourism Expenditures

• Internal tourism is the sum of inbound and domestic tourism expenditures.
• The internal tourism expenditures of the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) was PhP1.96 billion in 2020. This was lower by -82.4 percent from its 2019 level of Php 11.1 billion.
• Of the PhP1.96 billion, expenditures from domestic tourism accounted for 92.2 percent or PhP1.81 billion, while inbound tourism comprised the remaining 7.8 percent or PhP0.15 billion of the total internal tourism spending.

Figure 1. Internal Tourism Expenditures, CAR: 2016-2020

In Philippine Million Peso, At Current Prices

• The region’s share to the Philippines' total internal tourism expenditures in 2020 was 0.3 percent.

By Type and Expenditure Items

• All tourism characteristic products on internal tourism expenditures contracted in 2020.
• Expenditures on Entertainment and Recreation Services had the largest decline with -83.6 percent, followed by Transportation Services with -82.6 percent. Accommodation Services for Visitors declined -82.5 percent while Food and Beverage Serving Services had the lowest decline among the tourism characteristic products with -81.5 percent.
• Transportation Services recorded the highest expenditures in both inbound and domestic tourism in the region with PhP52.0 and PhP572.2 million, respectively. On the other hand, Entertainment and Recreation Services contributed the lowest spending in both type of tourism with PhP8.8 million for inbound tourism and PhP112.9 for domestic tourism.

Figure 2. Share of Inbound and Domestic Tourism to Total Internal Tourism Expenditures

By Product, CAR: 2020

• Among the tourism characteristic products, Transportation Services had the highest internal tourism expenditures in 2020 with 31.9 percent share or PhP624.21 million.
• Accommodation Services for Visitors ranked as second contributor to the region’s internal tourism expenditures with 23.0 percent share or PhP450.09 million.
• Moreover, Travel Agencies & Other Reservation Services with PhP271.16 million shared 13.8 percent and was ranked third.

Figure 3. Internal Tourism Expenditures by Expenditure Item

(In Percent), CAR: 2020

• With PhP121.69 million, Entertainment and Recreation Services shared the least tourism expenditures in 2020, accounting for only 6.2 percent.

By Province

• The provinces of Abra and Apayao shared the lowest internal tourism expenditures with 0.15 and 0.58 percent shares, respectively.
• A decrease of -81.2 percent was recorded in Abra from its 2019 PhP15.3 million internal tourism expenditures to PhP2.9 million in 2020. Likewise, in Apayao province, internal tourism expenditures declined by -78.2 percent from PhP52.4 million in 2019 to PhP11.5 million in 2020.
• Baguio City shared a significant portion of internal tourism expenditures among CAR provinces with 81.3 percent contribution or PhP1.59 billion. However, the city dropped by -80.9 percent from its PhP8.34 billion tourist spending in 2019.
• Benguet shared 1.4 percent or PhP26.7 million to the internal tourism expenditures of the Cordillera. The province posted a decline of -93.9 percent, the biggest decrease among all the provinces.
• With PhP99.2 million, the province of Ifugao shared 5.1 percent to the total internal tourism expenditures of the region. This was lower by -88.7 percent from the PhP881.7 billion in 2019.
• Kalinga recorded the lowest rate of decrease compared to the other provinces in the region, with -74.2 percent. The province’s internal tourism expenditures amounted to PhP108.3 in 2020 and contributed 5.5 percent to the region’s total. Kalinga ranked as the third top contributor to tourist spending.

Figure 4. Share of Internal Tourism Expenditures

By Province, CAR: 2020

• Mountain Province ranked second with the highest expenditures in the region. The province reached PhP117.6 million in 2020 and contributed 6 percent to the total internal tourism expenditures of CAR.