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With the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic now forcing people to observe physical distancing and isolation, most work and leisure activities are now being done online. As the health crisis continues to evolve and in anticipation of other challenges, the Department of Tourism (DOT) and its attached agencies are making sure that Philippine tourism remains […]
The Department of Tourism (DOT) commits to sustain the Filipino brand of hospitality and service to stranded tourists amid the community quarantine brought about by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. This, after stranded foreign tourists and their respective embassies commended the DOT for the assistance it had provided during the COVID-19 pandemic. “We welcome […]
The Department of Tourism (DOT) is preparing for the revival and reopening of tourism in the country once areas are classified under the modified general community quarantine (MGCQ). During the hearing of the Senate Committee of the Whole on the Impact of COVID-19, Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat presented a situation on the country’s tourism industry […]
The tourism industry will recover amid the uncertainty brought by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. This is the consensus of tourism experts tapped by the Philippine Department of Tourism (DOT) and the Tourism Promotions Board (TPB) in partnership with the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) in a webinar recently. In the virtual talk […]
The tourism scene in the Philippines will be “vastly different” once travel activities will again be allowed as part of post-coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) measures, Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat said. The “new normal” would involve enforced health security standards for both tourists and personnel, including the “re-training” of tourism workers, Romulo-Puyat stressed. In a Go […]
The Department of Agriculture through the Philippine Coconut Authority (DA-PCA) is partnering with other agencies to study the properties of virgin coconut oil (VCO) that could cure patients infected with the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). “This is indeed good news for us, a silver lining in the scientific community. This inter-agency effort is reflective of […]
An online version of the Philippine Harvest, a trade and food expo, was launched recently to adapt to the current coronavirus disease(COVID-19) global health crisis and to the Luzon-wide enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) now being enforced. Through the innovative “online trade fair,” consumers may order directly from the social media accounts of the participating farmers […]
The Department of Tourism (DOT) has launched an online training program for the country’s tourism stakeholders to stay relevant and learn how to cope with the difficulties arising from the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and to facilitate their transition to recovery. Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat said the program, called DOT Online Training, is conducted […]
Department of Tourism (DOT) Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat confirmed a total of 11,549 hotel rooms for the accommodation of repatriated overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who are required to undergo a 14-day quarantine upon their arrival to the country. Meanwhile, business process outsourcing (BPO) employees are currently billeted in some 13,287 hotel rooms located in the National […]
Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat recently said she will be on self-quarantine after the announcement that Armed Forces of the Philippines Chief of Staff Gen. Felimon Santos Jr., has tested positive for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). In a statement, Romulo-Puyat said  she was in close contact with Santos in a meeting on March 20. “I […]