{"id":8711,"date":"2016-10-18T17:05:06","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T09:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=8711"},"modified":"2016-10-18T17:05:06","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T09:05:06","slug":"dot-looking-to-turn-ph-into-sports-tourism-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2016\/10\/18\/dot-looking-to-turn-ph-into-sports-tourism-hub\/","title":{"rendered":"DOT looking to turn PH into sports tourism hub"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Philippines may soon be the next big destination when it comes to major sporting events, as the Department of Tourism (DOT) is promoting the country as a sports tourism hub.<\/span><\/p>\n

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SPORTS, MORE FUN IN THE PHILIPPINES. If the recent push by the DOT is successful, we might see more Manny Pacquiao fights and other major sporting events being held in the country.\u00a0<\/em>Photo taken by Jun-Ely Fernan Gayosa, grabbed from <\/em>flickr<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

In a press briefing<\/a> released by DOT on October 3 (Monday), Tourism Sec. Wanda Teo said \u201cThe Philippines has a huge potential to become one of the world\u2019s great adventure travel destinations. With our country\u2019s natural attractions and the Filipinos\u2019 love for sports, we certainly have the competitive edge to make it big in this fast growing niche market of sports tourism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

She also disclosed plans to mount more local and international sports events that have the potential to draw more tourists to the country. This happened during the recently-concluded United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Conference held in Da Nang, Vietnam last September 23.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tourism Undersecretary Katherine de Castro, who represented the DOT during the conference, said the Philippines should go for a bigger share in the multi-billion dollar business of sports tourism.<\/span><\/p>\n

She also stressed water sports such as surfing, wake boarding, and diving as some of the country\u2019s key tourism products, saying \u201cThis alone can spur tourism growth in the country.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The UNWTO considers tourism and sports as \u201ctwo social phenomena in the 21st<\/sup> century that mobilize millions of people the world over,\u201d as shown during the 2016 Rio Olympics. They also said tourism and sports are some of the \u201cmost powerful economic driving force of society today, with \u201cenormous potential to generate a very wide-range of economic spin-offs.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Source: Department of Tourism Official Facebook page<\/a>, GMA News Online<\/a>, BusinessMirror<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Philippines may soon be the next big destination when it comes to major sporting events, as the Department of Tourism (DOT) is promoting the country as a sports tourism hub. SPORTS, MORE FUN IN THE PHILIPPINES. If the recent push by the DOT is successful, we might see more Manny Pacquiao fights and other major sporting events being held in the country.\u00a0Photo taken by Jun-Ely Fernan Gayosa, grabbed from flickr In a press briefing released by DOT on October 3 (Monday), Tourism Sec. Wanda Teo said \u201cThe Philippines has a huge potential to become one of the world\u2019s great adventure travel destinations. With our country\u2019s natural attractions and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8711","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\/10\/image-9-e1476780663937.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8711","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=8711"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8716,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8711\/revisions\/8716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}