Let me start this installment with a couple updates. I was in Manila for a few days on business and I noticed a program promoted by the DOT that runs two shuttle vans on hourly routes between major hotels and tourist attractions in Manila. It’s run by a company called Busina and uses the somewhat […]
Philippine Tourism Improvements On A Budget — Part 2
A couple weeks ago I published a post on this subject which got me quite a few interesting comments and bits of feedback. I really appreciate all those who shared their ideas. A couple updates since that last post. Although I have seen no real evidence of the Department of Tourism advertising in general interest […]
Philippine Tourism Improvements On A Budget
A few weeks back I wrote an article on one of the big problems facing Philippine tourism — and a very critical safety issue that by chance involved the Philippines ‘Top Man’ in the tourism business, Secretary of Tourism Joseph Hotchkiss Durano, commonly known as “Ace”. As a little aside, I wonder how many otherwise […]
Tourism Basics
Funny how time goes by. I’m way behind on my article writing here, and for that I can only say, sorry ‘bout that, retirement is a lot busier than I thought it would be. I started to write the sentence “a few days ago” and then I looked at the dates … turns out that […]
Is the Philippines turning off tourists?
Over this past weekend, I got a little shock. I was watching the news on TV and saw a tourism ad for the Philippines. On the ad, they promoted a new tourism website that I was not aware of, so I visited. This is a website owned and operated by the Philippine Government Department of […]
On the road again…
Several people have already guessed it… I got several e-mails from people over the weekend asking if I was out of town, because I did not reply to comments on Friday and Saturday as quickly as I normally do. Well, indeed, I was out of town over the weekend. On Friday morning, Feyma, the kids […]