has included Boracay Island in Aklan among its readers’ 25 Favorite Islands in the World for 2023.
Boracay ranked after the Great Barrier Reef Islands in Australia, the Maldives, Bali in Indonesia, Madeira in Portugal, Phuket in Thailand, Skye and the Hebrides, in Scotland, Koh Samui in Thailand, Dominica in the Caribbean, and Langkawi in Malaysia.According to T+L, close to 165,000 of its readers completed its survey this year, up 25 percent over prepandemic levels.
Unlike prepandemic times, domestic travelers now dominate tourist arrivals in the island. Their arrivals in the first half of 2023 already represents 96.5 percent of the 932,433 recorded domestic tourists in the entire 2019.