Northphil Tourism Expo to share wonders of Tourism and Water

Dubbed NorthPhil Tourism and Travel Expo 2013, the event will showcase the region’s water resources management and conservation efforts in supporting the United Nations International Year of Water and World Tourism Day theme Tourism and Water: Protecting our Common Future. The NorthPhil expo is a public-private partnership effort of the northern regional offices of the Department […] More here: Northphil Tourism Expo to share wonders of Tourism and Water

Make the Philippines your investment, retirement destination, Koreans asked

Korean retirees and investors were invited to either stay for the long-term in the Philippines or invest in the country. More here: Make the Philippines your investment, retirement destination, Koreans asked

Stress-free travel options

With the new Clark-Dubai route, Emirates offers travelers and OFWs living in the northern part of Luzon a stress- and heavy traffic-free option. Of the 2.7 million Filipinos working in the Middle East, about two-thirds live in Northern and Central Luzon. Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal and Quezon) exports the largest number of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) with 18.1 percent of the ... More here: Stress-free travel options

Filipino workers not pawns in HK demand for apology – DFA spokesman

MANILA, Philippines – The status of thousands of Filipino domestic workers in Hong Kong should not be used as leverage in the Chinese territory’s demand for a categorical apology from the Philippine government for the killing of eight Chinese tourists in the hijacking of a tourist bus by a disgruntled policeman in Manila three years ago, the Department of Foreign Affairs said Saturday. The ... More here: Filipino workers not pawns in HK demand for apology – DFA spokesman

Technology, travel and 'tweet tourism'

MANILA, Philippines - Technology has drastically changed the way people travel. The ubiquity of smartphones and 24/7 connectivity, for instance, has allowed frequent fliers to use websites and mobile apps to book flights and accommodations, keep track of mileage points and other perks, share recommendations and reviews, and post photos ... More here: Technology, travel and 'tweet tourism'

Want to travel to the Philippines for free? Send us a video like this one!

...and it's not just videos! You can also send a creative photo on why we hould pick you as the Y Funbassador Singapore. More here: Want to travel to the Philippines for free? Send us a video like this one!

The Philippines, is an archipelagic country located in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. The Philippine archipelago comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean. The Philippines is a country that contains a myriad of different amalgated cultures and influences. The superficial face of modern Filipino culture has many more influences from the Western world than other nearby Asian cultures. Most of these influences are a product of previous colonization and derived mainly from the cultures of Spain and the United States, with a secondary influence from Latin American cultures who were under Spain during the same period the Philippines was. Despite the visual Western and Hispanic influences, the older Asian aspects of Filipino culture are seen through the strength of filial piety, family and its influence, empahasis on the group before the individual, the concept of maintaining social harmony, ancient cultural beliefs and mythology, the complexities of local psychology (such as hiya or shame and the concept of saving face), and accepted social etiquette between other Filipinos. Within Asia, this Western-Eastern juxtaposition is most seen in the Philippines, and continues to fascinate many a guest to the country.

Signs of a faster growth appeared in the early 1990s. About 1.2 million tourists visited the Philippines in 1992, which was a record high in the number of tourist visits since 1989. The tourism growth of the year of 1992 gave the Department of Tourism a reason to forecast a positive outlook for the future years.[citation needed]
In 2000, the Philippines' tourist arrivals totaled 2.2 million. In 2003 it totaled 2,838,000, a growth of almost 29%, and it is expected to grow as much as 3.4 million in 2007. In the first quarter of 2007, the tourist arrival in the Philippines grew as much as 20% in same period last year. In the period of January to September 2009 alone, the government recorded 5.2 million tourists visiting the country