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The Department of Tourism (DOT) has expressed intent to share its Boracay rehabilitation experience and strategies with other Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member states. “We wish to share the Philippines’ experience in the rehabilitation of our top sun-and-beach tourism destination, the island of Boracay,” Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat said in her speech during […]
The Government Corporations and Public Enterprises Committee of the Senate recently conducted a public hearing on the proposed creation of the Baguio, La Trinidad, Itogon, Sablan, Tuba and Tublay Development Authority (BLISTTDA), which the Department of Tourism (DOT) sees as an opportunity to come up with a sustainable plan covering Baguio City and its adjacent […]
Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat said her department will be making frequent “surprise visits” to El Nido in Palawan to ensure the municipal government will seriously implement sustainable tourism policies. “I will come back here very often, it will be a surprise, it will be unannounced,” Romulo-Puyat said. The tourism chief, who was in El Nido […]
The country is “on track” with its 2018 target for international arrivals after foreign tourists to the Philippines reached an “all-time high” of 3.706 million in the first half of the year, said the Department of Tourism (DOT). “We are actually on track. We are halfway the year and we are exactly halfway of our […]
Tourism Ministers of Costa Rica and Cameroon join the growing list of top level officials to come together at the 6th United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) International Conference on Tourism Statistics slated from June 21 to 23. Costa Rica’s Minister Mauricio Ventura Aragon and Cameroon’s Minister Bello Bouba Maigari will be joining the […]