{"id":11761,"date":"2017-01-06T10:23:41","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T02:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=11761"},"modified":"2017-01-05T10:31:40","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T02:31:40","slug":"dot-to-boost-tourism-in-the-country-in-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2017\/01\/06\/dot-to-boost-tourism-in-the-country-in-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"DOT to boost PH tourism in 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Tourism (DOT) aims to increase the tourists in the country from 3 million to 6 million in the Davao region.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11763\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/01\/789_5719281521694116322-1.jpg\" alt=\"789_5719281521694116322\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/01\/789_5719281521694116322-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/01\/789_5719281521694116322-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/01\/789_5719281521694116322-1-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Image taken by Edgar Allan Zeta-Yap from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vigattintourism.com\/tourism\/articles\/Davao-Occidentals-Exotic-and-Beautiful-Olanivan-Island\">Vigattin Tourism<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Although the 3-million-increase may seem a bit ambitious, DOT Secretary Wanda Teo said that they would try their best to market various destinations in the country, especially since there are also several events lined up this year. Two of the international events hosted by the Philippines are the Miss Universe Pageant and the ASEAN 50.<\/p>\n<p>Teo also said that they will work hard to also boost the tourism in Davao and in Mindanao by promoting it in various domestic and international travel fairs. \u201cAnd in all of the travels that I\u2019ve done especially on international, I endorsed the country\u2019s destinations including Davao,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She also said that a team of Chinese investors have already gone to the city in early December to see spots in Davao which were referred to them. She stated that they\u2019d prefer beach line properties so they would be able to build hotels and other establishments which will boost the tourism in the area.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Sources: <a href=\"http:\/\/business.mb.com.ph\/2017\/01\/03\/dot-targets-3-m-increase-in-visitors-in-2017\/\">Manila Bulletin<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pna.gov.ph\/index.php?idn=&amp;nid=6&amp;rid=952240\">Philippines News Agency<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Tourism (DOT) aims to increase the tourists in the country from 3 million to 6 million in the Davao region. Image taken by Edgar Allan Zeta-Yap from Vigattin Tourism. Although the 3-million-increase may seem a bit ambitious, DOT Secretary Wanda Teo said that they would try their best to market various destinations in the country, especially since there are also several events lined up this year. Two of the international events hosted by the Philippines are the Miss Universe Pageant and the ASEAN 50. Teo also said that they will work hard to also boost the tourism in Davao and in Mindanao by promoting it in various [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[983,1876,1046,539,248,1048,1834,119,1875],"class_list":["post-11761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events","tag-983","tag-asean","tag-davao","tag-department-of-tourism","tag-dot","tag-mindanao","tag-miss-universe","tag-philippines","tag-wanda-teo"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/01\/789_5719281521694116322-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11761"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11767,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11761\/revisions\/11767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}