The Department of Tourism (DOT) Regional Office 6 has reported an increase of 6.64 percent in tourist arrival in boracay island during the first quarter of this year.

The increase was noted based on the DOT monitoring that there were 130,897 tourists who visited boracay from January to March this year as compared to last year's figure of only 122,742 for the same duration.

The Koreans, who come here in Iloilo City to study the English language and take a dive into the crystalline waters of boracay during weekends, still top the list of foreign visitors with 21,200 of them recorded.

Other nationalities that belonged to the top five list of boracay visitors are the Americans with 3,405, Chinese with 1,843, those from the United Kingdom with 1,330 and the Japanese with 1,297.

The total 130,897 tourists who came to boracay, also generated a total of P2,406,331,909.80 Philippine receipts according to the DOT.