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The Department of Tourism (DOT) formally partnered with Guide to the Philippines, an e-commerce site, in launching its official travel booking system, featuring DOT-accredited tour operators and establishments. The booking site, which can be accessed at https://guidetothephilippines.ph, was introduced alongside the new Philippine tourism website philippines.travel. During the signing of the memorandum of agreement with Guide to […]
The Philippine government, through the Department of Tourism (DOT), welcomes the continuous recognition of Palawan for its clear water beaches with CNN Travel recently citing the island’s allure. “Our rehabilitation efforts to preserve the beauty of Palawan did not go unnoticed. We are thankful for this CNN citation of our tourist destinations,” Tourism Secretary Bernadette […]
The country’s first international dive expo was launched recently in a bid to further position the Philippines as a premier dive hub in Asia. The Philippine International Dive Expo (Phidex), hosted by the Department of Tourism (DOT), was held at the Conrad Manila in Pasay City. In her speech read by DOT Undersecretary Benito Bengzon […]
The Department of Tourism (DOT) has started training Filipino tour guides on how to speak Mandarin to better serve the growing number of Chinese tourists visiting the Philippines, a ranking Tourism official said. “We’re already in the process of accepting applications for our Mandarin tour guide training. It’s a month-long program where we actually train […]
The four recently declared new tourist destinations in Nueva Ecija and Ilocos Sur are slated to receive significant attention and assistance on infrastructure, Department of Tourism (DOT) Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat has assured. “It’s written in the law that TIEZA should be actively helping the local government draft tourism plans because tourism is not only on […]
The Philippine National Police (PNP) and Department of Tourism (DoT) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to further strengthen a partnership that ensures the safety and security of local and foreign tourists through the Tourist-Oriented Police for Community Order and Protection (TOPCOP) program. PNP chief, Gen. Oscar Albayalde, and DoT Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat signed the […]
The Philippines has kept a “high profile” in the world tourism radar, Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat said. “Tourism is at its most exciting times. The Philippines has kept a high profile in the world tourism radar,” Romulo-Puyat said during her keynote address at the 7th Tourism Coordinating Council (TCC) meeting in Makati. “Foreign tourist arrivals […]
The right of Filipinos to travel abroad should not be burdened with a travel tax which is intended to fund the enhancement of the country’s competitiveness as a major tourist destination, three senators said. Senators Koko Pimentel III, Manny Pacquiao and Kiko Pangilinan, filed their respective bills seeking to totally abolish the collection of travel […]
The country’s tourism industry has generated some P245 billion in receipts from international visitors during the first six months of the year 2019, the Department of Tourism (DOT) said. The corresponding total receipts from the six-month arrivals increased by 17.57 percent from the half-year gross revenues in 2018. Data provided by the DOT Statistics, Economic […]
Antique District Representative Loren Legarda said she is pushing to make the rivers in Antique “clean” and “useable.” “We want to make sure our rivers are clean and useable. Useable for tourism, (for) children to swim in,” Legarda said, adding that the province does not want “what had happened to Boracay” to be repeated in […]