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PHILIPPINES ANTICIPATES STRONG NORTH AMERICAN ARRIVALS
THROUGHOUT 1st QUARTER OF 2007 It's all systems go for many Americans and Canadians on their
group and family visits to the Philippines throughout the first
quarter of 2007. "Based on recent information from the
Philippine Department of Tourism's (PDOT) Overseas Offices in
San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, several golf,
retiree, business, and medical groups have confirmed their
bookings for the first quarter of 2007," said Maria Corazon G.
Jorda-Apo, Head of Team North America of the Philippine
Department of Tourism.
"These travelers have chosen the Philippines as their tropical
escape from the harsh winter in Canada and the United States,"
added Jorda-Apo. "December is traditionally a busy time for the
arrival of North American travelers to the Philippines, but the
large number of tour groups anticipated for the first quarter of
2007 is an indication that we have remained a preferred holiday
destination among North Americans."
In line with the Department's "Out-of-the-Box" promotion, the
second phase of "The Philippines: Explore. Experience. Return."
(PEER) program, visitors from the US and Canada are encouraged
to visit www.experiencephilippines.ph to learn about exciting
tour packages and how one can win fabulous prizes including a
condo unit at St. Francis Towers in Ortigas Center. The
promotion runs until December 31, 2007 .
According to Tourism Attaché Rene de los Santos of PDOT's San
Francisco office, more than 1,000 Filipino-American military
retirees from all over the U.S. will have a week sojourn to pay
homage to their departed comrades in the military shrines of
Luzon with an overnight stay on historic Corregidor Island.
The month of February 2007 will see groups of businessmen like
the members of the newly-formed Filipino-American Chamber of
Commerce of Oregon on their vacation in Metro Manila, Subic and
Baguio.
Golfers are headed to the top golf courses of the Philippines to
practice their swing. In the first three months of 2007, golf
aficionados from cities all across North America will congregate
on the greens of Metro Manila, Tagaytay, Cavite, Batangas and
Cebu, with sidetrips to Pagsanjan, Quezon, Puerto Galera,
Palawan, Boracay and Bohol.
These golfers come from the Eagles High Golf Club, Phil-Am
Amateur Golf Club, Tamaraw Golf Club, FM Golf, Filipino League
of Golfers, Four City Golfers Group, Philippine Golf Fiesta of
Los Angeles, Diners Golf Classic, International Alliance Golf
Club, Philippine Golf Classic II of New York, Philippine
Community of Southern New Jersey and the CAA Golf Group of
Canada.
Director Annie Cuevas of PDOT's Los Angeles office said that
"although most of these visiting golfers have their own club
tournaments in the Philippines' finest golf courses, some will
participate in the 1st FiVR and Ambassador Champions' Cup to be
held at the Splendido, Aoki, Eagle Ridge, Sherwood Hills,
Midlands and the Riviera Golf Clubs."
Tourism Attaché Vernie Morales of the PDOT office in Chicago
likewise stated that the Medical Mission Foundation of Michigan,
numbering more than a hundred, will arrive in Bataan and Boracay
in January for cataract surgeries with a pre- and post- mission
stay in Metro Manila. Two hundred members of the Philippine
Medical Associations of Chicago and Michigan will visit Ilocos
and Palawan to extend medical assistance for several weeks.
About three hundred practitioners of the Philippine Medical
Society of Northern California will have their missions in Naga
and neighboring Bicol towns this January.
"Aside from undertaking their primary purpose for coming here,
the itineraries of these groups include time for sightseeing,
relaxation and enrichment in each of the destinations they will
visit," Morales added.
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