Tag: Philippines Inbound
Chinese growth gives Philippine tourism its strongest two months yet
Arrivals into the Philippines crossed 1.4 million in the first two months of 2018 for the first time, up 16.2 per cent year-on-year, driven...
Trade scrambles to manage bookings with Boracay’s impending closure
With just a month to go before Boracay’s closure, the travel trade is bemoaning the lack of details on the government’s drastic decision that...
Seeds planted for new niche
Tourism stakeholders contemplate upselling strategies, tax holidays and a template to grow its budding farm tourism niche
Philtoa to launch travel mart for alternative tour products
The Philippine Tour Operators Association (Philtoa) attempts to bring ecology, ethnic and cultural tourism products into the mainstream by launching a yearly travel mart...
Two-month closure of Boracay threatens livelihoods, decries trade
The Philippine travel trade is opposing government plans to temporarily close Boracay to tourism as it undergoes rehabilitation from severe environmental degradation caused by...
‘Cesspool’ label a wake-up call for Boracay to clean up its...
A six-month resuscitation effort has begun on Boracay, after the tourist hotspot was recently described by the Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte as a "cesspool"...
Philippines pushes harder for Chinese visitors
Never mind that it missed the one million mark for Chinese tourist arrivals in 2017, the Philppines' Department of Tourism (DOT) is raising the...
DoT looks to lesser-known attractions to jazz up Manila packages
The Philippine trade is anticipating that the Department of Tourism’s (DoT) move to spotlight metro Manila’s lesser-known attractions will add zing to the capital's...
Philippines takes innovative tack to tourism promotion
The Tourism Promotions Board Philippines (TPB) will turn feasts and festivals into regular celebrations as well as craft a tourism icon to complement its...
Philippines raises Mayon volcano alert amid eruption fears
The Philippines yesterday raised the alert level on Mayon Volcano to level three, indicating that the volcano is exhibiting “relatively high unrest” with “hazardous...
