Arrivals via cruise ships hit 55K in ’23, signal rebound
CRUISE tourism is making a slow but steady rebound in the country, with 32 cruise ships dropping anchor in several destinations in the country last year.
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CRUISE tourism is making a slow but steady rebound in the country, with 32 cruise ships dropping anchor in several destinations in the country last year.
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GLOBAL tourism leaders underscored the need to diversify investments in the tourism sector, and ensure these funds don’t go to a few well-established destinations.
THE Philippines is exploring new markets to encourage more divers to visit the country and boost the dive industry’s contributions to the economy.
THE Department of Tourism (DOT) and its main attached agencies will be allocated new appropriations of P2.94 billion for fiscal year 2024, some 21 percent less than their appropriations this year.
PRIVATE tourism stakeholders are looking forward to more MICE (meetings, incentives conventions exhibitions) events to help boost inbound arrivals, and enable the country to reach government’s target of 4.8 million international tourists this year.
OVER 3 million international travelers visited the Philippines from January to July 19, 2023, with South Korea topping the list of source markets.
THE new tourism slogan “Love the Philippines” and its controversial video using stock footage of foreign sites, apparently made its debut in Cambodia, not in the Philippines.
A recent survey revealed Palawan is the top travel destination preferred by Filipinos, even as a lawmaker cautioned that airport experience and poor infrastructure might negate the Philippines’ tourism brand.
FROM declaring to the entire world “It’s More Fun in the Philippines,” the Department of Tourism (DOT) is now seemingly imploring tourists to “Love the Philippines.”
THE Department of Tourism (DOT) will be “recalibrating” its project with ride-hailing platform Grab Philippines, to reflect the inputs of tourism stakeholders, after meeting with major associations on Tuesday.
THE Department of Tourism (DOT) appears to have backtracked on earlier announced plans of using a ride-hailing app’s partner-drivers as tour guides.
TOURISM stakeholders are calling out the Department of Tourism (DOT) on its new partnership with ride-hailing app Grab Philippines, which they said gives the company unfair advantage over accredited tourist transport companies and tour guides.
THE AYALA Group has collaborated with the Department of Tourism (DOT) for the country’s first-ever Hop-On, Hop-Off (HoHo) bus tours by offering 4 of its properties as designated stops in Makati City.
The Duty Free Philippines Corporation (DFPC) is reportedly set to start the mass retrenchment of its workers next month as part of its ongoing restructuring plans, according to a labor group.
THE Philippines ranks poorly among the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) destinations in terms of cultural experiences as a tourist’s motivation for visiting.
“A COUNTRY Brand is built on two main pillars—business and tourism. Within those two clearly defined categories, you cover all the different elements that make up a Country Brand,” said international communications expert Didier Lagae. “Business covers living and working, investing and exporting. Meanwhile, the high volume of income that tourism contributes each year to the GDP [gross domestic product] of most countries, makes it a strategic sector that governments usually can’t afford to ignore,” said the multiawarded public relations professional in an interview with PR Week on February 18, 2021.
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AYALA LAND Hotels and Resorts Corp. (AHRC) is riding high on the surge in domestic tourism and rising number of international arrivals. This has encouraged the company to push forward with its plans of increasing the number of its keys in its homegrown Seda-branded hotels this year.
THE Department of Tourism (DOT) is pushing for the re-establishment of the Boracay Inter-Agency Task Force (BIATF) to oversee the management of the popular resort island.
THE Tourism Promotions Board (TPB), the marketing arm of the Department of Tourism (DOT), sees the Meetings, Incentives, Exhibitions, Conventions (MICE) sector bouncing back in 2023.
INBOUND tourists in the Philippines are on their way to hitting 1 million by yearend, encouraging international hotel chains to sign on more properties and expand their local footprint.
TRAVELERS from the United States continued to lead the total number of foreign tourists arriving in the Philippines.
THE Department of Tourism (DOT) has approved a number of quarantine hotels to offer guest services even to non-quarantined guests.
TRAVEL restrictions here and around the world continue to reduce the number of visitors to the Philippines.
THE Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) is investigating reports that Alphaland Aviation continued to fly passengers coming from the locked-down areas of the National Capital Region and four provinces (NCR-plus) to Balesin Island Club in Quezon.
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