naga cam sur bicol's tourist hub new dot stat for legazpi city posting an impressive percent improvement over previous year s performance naga city and camarines sur combined took the highest number of tourist arrivals in bicol more than half of the regional total for the year in a report on the regional distribution of travelers in bicol prepared by the regional office of the department of tourism here naga camarines sur registered a total number of tourists domestic and foreign for the period january to december last year this is slightly more than half the regional total of tourists that visited bicol during that period the report also showed that naga camarines sur s performance is also about three times higher than the number of tourists posted by erstwhile top tourist drawer legazpi albay which garnered a total of tourists or an increase of only percent over previous year s performance which was in next higher performer over previous year s record is the island province of catanduanes which posted an impressive percent increase from in to tourist arrivals in the other island province of masbate produced a total of tourists or percent higher than its total tourist arrivals of tourists in camarines norte posted an improved performance of percent from in to in of the six provinces in bicol only sorsogon posted a negative percent in its performance as it was only able to draw a total of tourists in which was short of its tourists recorded in sorsogon despite its butanding is also known to be rebel infested where there have been incidents of clashes between government troopers and the communist guerrillas aside from the alarming cases of extra judicial killings by both sides both albay and sorsogon felt the brunt of recent volcanic eruptions and ash falls and were heavily battered by floods and typhoons during the past two years still naga camarines sur registered the highest number of foreign tourists in at compared to legazpi albay s from january to september according to an earlier report by thedot regional office legazpi albay was leading in the number of foreign tourists vs naga camarines sur s until the figures changed during the final quarter of the year of the year with naga camarines sur finally breaking away with almost foreign tourists more in the previous year or in naga camarines sur also outclassed legazpi albay in foreign tourist arrivals vs while the total regional tally of tourist arrivals totalled only or short of hitting the one million mark bicol nonetheless recorded an improvement of percent over previous year s performance in bicol was able to draw a total of tourists both domestic and foreign the total number of foreign tourists that came to bicol doubly improved from in to in of the six provinces masbate posted the least number of foreign tourists at only followed by camarines norte with catanduanes took a big leap in drawing foreign tourists from in to in