05 March 2010
The Davao City tourism industry leaders are initiating a Green Tourism Forum on Environmental Stewardship on March 8 at the Marco Polo Davao. Mary Ann M. Montemayor, convenor of Green Alliance for Davao said the forum aims to tackle relevant and pressing environmental issues affecting the tourism industry such as the power energy crisis in [...]
Posted in About the Philippines, Davao City, Mindanao, Philippine Travel News3 Comments
01 March 2010
The Philiippine Department of Tourism (DOT) further reinforced its technical assessment of tourism traffic to the country to capture the aggregate and accurate state of tourism and its contribution to the economy. “We have expanded our assessment to include a more systematic and in-depth analysis of top destinations to provide a clearer insight on the [...]
Posted in About the Philippines, Philippine Travel News3 Comments
24 February 2010
The latest edition of the annual Philippine Travel Tour Expo (TTE) posted a record number of visitors during its three-day run at the SMX Convention Center, the Philippine Travel Agencies Association (PTAA) said Tuesday. TTE chairman and former PTAA president Jose Clemente III said more than 110,000 visitors went to the seventeenth edition of the [...]
Posted in Philippine Travel News5 Comments
22 February 2010
Aboitiz Transport System (ATS), one of the country’s largest shipping operators, has purchased two second-hand roll-on/roll-off (RORO) passenger vessels from Japan worth $ 7.5 million each. The MV Sunflower Kogane from The Diamond Ferry Co, Ltd. Oita, Japan and MV Sunflower Nishiki from Kansai Kisen Kaisha each has a 9,700 gross tonnage, 400-twenty-foot equivalent unit [...]
Posted in Philippine Travel News, Travel Guide0 Comments
19 February 2010
Looking back at 2009, Department of Tourism (DOT) Secretary Joseph Ace Durano said major international events in Metro Manila have increased utilization of various tourism facilities. Director Nini Ravanilla of DOT Region 5 at the Philippine Travel Tour Expo 2010 These included the International Conference on Green Industry in Asia, East Asia Seas Congress, Asian [...]
Posted in About the Philippines, Philippine Travel News, Travel Guide4 Comments
19 February 2010
Philippine tourism never had it so good in 2009. In a 2009 year-end report by Department of Tourism (DOT) Secretary Joseph Ace Durano, late Friday, he said total tourist traffic in the top 14 destinations last year reached 8.9 million for a 14 percent growth. Durano attributed this feat to the combined efforts of the [...]
Posted in About the Philippines, Philippine Travel News, Travel Guide2 Comments
18 February 2010
Native products from Cebu, Mindanao and Ilocos region are among the items with the highest sales in various trade fairs in the on-going Baguio Flower Festival 2010 according to The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). Art Tibaldo, DTI information officer, said this was determined since last year and “it remains the same in the [...]
Posted in Baguio City, Luzon, Philippine Festivals1 Comment
18 February 2010
White Rock Water Park and Beach Resort is a breath of fresh air to anyone tired of the maddening crowd. A unique getaway on the long stretches of beach in Subic, here you’ll definitely find a touch of paradise—pristine waters gently rolling over a bed of soft white sand, and majestic mountains on the horizon. [...]
Posted in Hotels, Luzon, Subic, Zambales9 Comments
18 February 2010
The Philippine Convention and Visitors Corporation (PCVC) will validate the readiness of Davao City of hosting the Meetings Incentives Conventions Exhibitions (MICE) in 2012. Susan Palad, vice president representing Mindanao at the Tourism Congress, said hosting the MICE is an important event for the tourism sector as this will gather not only domestic but also [...]
Posted in Davao City, Mindanao0 Comments
17 February 2010
Crowds of devotees and tourists from all over the country and the globe participated in the historical 50th year of canonical celebration of Our Lady of Namacpacan in Luna, La Union. The commemoration of the papal bull issued by Pope XXIII on the coronation of Our Lady of Namacpacan in 1959 is considered one of [...]
Posted in La Union, Religious Sites4 Comments
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