Credit to Author: Faye Almazan| Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 16:44:23 +0000
THE country’s tourism industry welcomed 8.26 million foreign visitors last year, a 15.24-percent increase from the 7.16 million arrivals recorded in 2018. The figure is also marginally higher than Department of Tourism (DoT)’s 2019 target of 8.2 million, set in the National Tourism Development Plan for 2016 to 2022. “This heralds a new milestone in […]
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Credit to Author: nguno| Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2019 05:20:12 +0000
“We have seen many cases of problematic tourists, lately they are either Australian, British or Russian,” said an immigration official.
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Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2019 11:26:11 +0000
Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana on Wednesday said President Rodrigo Duterte’s travel warning in Zamboanga was only meant as his “way of looking out for the safety of tourists visiting the Philippines.”
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Read moreCredit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 02:35:33 +0000
Twenty-nine German tourists were killed when their bus spun off the road and tumbled down a slope before crashing into a house on the Portuguese island of Madeira.
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Read moreCredit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 00:32:00 +0000
Two people have died at the Grand Canyon in separate incidents this week that included one man stumbling over the edge of the rim.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 11:22:57 +0000
The Philippines welcomed a record 7.1 million tourists to its beaches and dive spots in 2018, despite its most famous resort Boracay being shut half the year.
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Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 05:51:35 +0000
A hotel employee arrested after a window she was cleaning fell onto a Hong Kong street and killed a tourist was released on bail Tuesday.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2018 22:58:38 +0000
The US government says other national parks “will remain as accessible as possible,” although some roads at Rocky Mountain National Park are closed as snow goes unplowed.
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An explosion caused by lava oozing into the ocean sent molten rock crashing through the roof of a sightseeing boat off Hawaii’s Big Island, injuring 23 people Monday, officials said.
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