{"id":6123,"date":"2016-05-31T16:41:50","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T08:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=6123"},"modified":"2016-05-31T16:41:50","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T08:41:50","slug":"hello-waterloo-phs-tourism-department-takes-over-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2016\/05\/31\/hello-waterloo-phs-tourism-department-takes-over-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello, Waterloo: PH\u2019s Tourism department takes over London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">As part of their Visit Philippines 2016 again campaign, the Department of Tourism\u2019s (DOT) took over the London Waterloo railway station by inviting Londoners to see and explore the places that make it more fun in the Philippines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The said campaign which launched a Station Domination series began with the London Waterloo Station, which is Britain\u2019s busiest railway station by passenger usage. This series started from April 24 to May 23, 2016 and it features a \u201cspecial immersion zone\u201d which gives the commuters a chance to taste and feel Philippines\u2019 beauty and \u201ca promise of more fun overall experience\u201d when they travel to the Philippines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Department of Tourism-Philippines takes over the London Waterloo Station\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZGlZ-pOQb8o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Commuters had a chance to win a holiday trip to the Philippines in three ways: one was by taking a foot selfie at the floor stickers around the station\u2019s concourse, second was by taking part in a 3D selfie stand, and third was through virtual reality pods with 360 images of Philippine islands. Commuters also received instant prizes during the month-long campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">This campaign also featured PH branding presence at the Waterloo station\u2019s large motion digital screen which is considered to be Europe\u2019s largest digital motion display. The Station Domination project was also reported to be seen by some 8.4 million commuters and was able to reach over 1.2 million Facebook users.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">According to Gerard O. Panga, Tourism Attach\u00e9 and Director for Northern and Southern Europe, \u201cThe tourist arrival to the Philippines for 2016 has already reached record numbers this year, growing by over 20% in February alone.\u201d Also, he added that with a variety of cultural and musical events, there are many reasons to keep coming back to the Philippines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/itsmorefuninthephilippines.co.uk\/the-philippines-take-over-london-waterloo\/\" target=\"_blank\">It&#8217;s More Fun in the Philippines <\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of their Visit Philippines 2016 again campaign, the Department of Tourism\u2019s (DOT) took over the London Waterloo railway station by inviting Londoners to see and explore the places that make it more fun in the Philippines. The said campaign which launched a Station Domination series began with the London Waterloo Station, which is Britain\u2019s busiest railway station by passenger usage. This series started from April 24 to May 23, 2016 and it features a \u201cspecial immersion zone\u201d which gives the commuters a chance to taste and feel Philippines\u2019 beauty and \u201ca promise of more fun overall experience\u201d when they travel to the Philippines. \u00a0 \u00a0 Commuters had a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/05\/DOT-e1464684041413.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6123","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=6123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6125,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6123\/revisions\/6125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}