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Tourism Secretary Christina Garcia Frasco lauded Indonesia’s “excellent hosting” of the ASEAN Tourism Forum 2023, the biggest tourism gathering of industry leaders and professionals from the Southeast Asian nations this year. Frasco made the statement during the bilateral meeting with her counterpart, Minister Sandiaga Salahuddin Uno of Indonesia’s Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy recently. […]
Tourism Secretary Christina Garcia Frasco affirmed the Department of Tourism’s (DOT) commitment to take an active role in the realization of socioeconomic policies, strategies, and programs enclosed in the Philippine Development Plan 2023-2028 of the Marcos Administration. “While the tourism industry is just coming out of the pandemic that ravaged through all of the sectors […]
The successful launching of the very first Mindanao Tourism Expo in Davao City signals the readiness of the region to further reopen its doors for international and local travels, Department of Tourism (DOT) Secretary Christina Garcia Frasco said. The first of its kind, Frasco said the regionalization of the highly anticipated tourism expo in a […]
The Philippines is among the 20 countries identified by China’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism to be part of its pilot areas for outbound tourism group tours. The other countries include neighboring ASEAN nations Thailand, Indonesia, Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore, Laos, as well as Sri Lanka, the Maldives, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Egypt, Kenya, South Africa, […]
The Philippines mounted a warm welcome reception for arriving Chinese tourists in celebration of the Chinese New Year and the continuous influx of Chinese visitors, following the easing of outbound travel restrictions of China. Department of Tourism (DOT) Secretary Christina Garcia Frasco personally welcomed the batch of visitors arriving onboard Xiamen Airlines flight MF819, together […]
The newly elected officers and trustees of the Philippine Travel Agencies Association (PTAA) took their oath before Department of Tourism (DOT) Secretary Christina Garcia Frasco recently at the New Coast Hotel Manila. Frasco was the guest of honor and inducting officer at the induction ceremony of the national travel agencies’ association. In her address, the […]
Department of Tourism (DOT) Secretary Christina Garcia Frasco lauded this year’s successful edition of “Suroy Suroy Sugbo”. Frasco graced the concluding ceremony of Suroy Suroy Sugbo held in Liloan, Cebu and attended by some 900 participants including House Deputy Speaker Duke Frasco and DOT officials Undersecretary Shahlimar Hofer Tamano, Undersecretary Myra Abubakar, OIC Undersecretary Secretary […]
Department of Tourism (DOT) officials and regional directors recently took their oath before Tourism Secretary Christina Garcia Frasco at the DOT office in Makati City. Frasco congratulated the officials on their appointment and expressed her gratitude for heeding the call of President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. to make tourism a pillar of economic resurgence amid the […]
The Philippine Department of Tourism (DOT) and its counterpart Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the People’s Republic of China have signed an Implementation Program on Tourism Cooperation to push for bilateral tourism cooperation between the Philippines and China. Philippine Tourism Secretary Christina Garcia Frasco signed the Implementation Program (IP) on Tourism Cooperation together with […]
The holidays have delivered further gains for the Philippine tourism industry as it breached its 1.7 million target by year-end with 2.65 million international visitor arrivals as of December 31, 2022, translating to P208.96 billion or $3.68 billion in tourism revenue, a 2465.75 percent from the same period last year. The new record has nearly one […]