BI to launch 6-month tourist visa next week
By Jocelyn R. Uy
Foreign visitors who want to extend their vacation in the Philippines may now do so without the usual hassles.
Foreign visitors who want to extend their vacation in the Philippines may now do so without the usual hassles.
Filipinos who wish to visit Japan may now apply for multiple-entry tourist visas, a privilege the Japanese government extending to Philippine citizens for the first time as part of the relaxation of its visa policies toward Southeast Asians.
More foreigners are staying longer in the country, the Bureau of Immigration (BI) said on Saturday. Immigration Commissioner Ricardo David Jr. said the income from visa extension fees collected from foreign tourists who visited the country during the first five months of the year increased by 16 percent.
They aren’t the most beautiful fish in the sea, but the labahita may just be what the Tubbataha Reefs need to regenerate after being bruised by the intrusions of two foreign vessels earlier this year.
Three more countries have issued travel advisories against Mindanao amid the United States’ warning of a “credible kidnap threat” in the Zamboanga Peninsula.
The Philippines’ Department of Tourism and ABS-CBN Foundation International recently signed a memorandum of agreement to launch Voluntrip, a program that combines philanthropy with tourism.
Philippine tourism officials said they stand to lose $4.5 million monthly in canceled bookings and charter flights from Taiwan as a result of a diplomatic row over the killing of a Taiwanese fisherman.
The country could miss its goal of welcoming 5.5 million foreign visitors this year if the conflict between Manila and Taipei is not resolved in two months, a tourism official said.
For the country’s efforts at rebuilding its tourism economy and everything else that was ravaged by Typhoon “Pablo” (international name: Bopha) in December 2012, the Philippines won the New Frontiers Award at this year’s Arabian Travel Market (ATM), the Middle East’s premier travel and tourism exhibition.
Thousands of lanterns brightened the evening sky in this town on Friday as the Philippines lit its way to a Guinness world record for the most number of sky lanterns flown simultaneously.
Russian tourist Mark Yuchyugyaev’s fascination with the majestic beauty of the Mayon Volcano proved to be costly, in more ways than one.
Russian tourist Mark Yuchyugyaev’s fascination with Mayon Volcano proved costly to the Philippine government.
