Tag Archives: Tourism

August 16, 2024 | 12:00am

In almost 37 years of living in the Philippines, my beloved wife Karen has tried her best to get her side of the family in the Netherlands to come and visit the Philippines. She extended repeated invitations, shared photos after photos, offered free food and accommodations as well as land travel arrangements, etc.

For her effort, her dad visited twice, her brother and sister came once and her brother in-law visited twice, once for tourism and once for work. Miracles upon miracles, she finally got her nephew and his fiancée to visit just before Christmas 2023. But that was after she threatened to disown the whole lot and not come home to the Netherlands.

In the past, we thought it was all about funds and costs of…

August 16, 2024 | 12:00am

In almost 37 years of living in the Philippines, my beloved wife Karen has tried her best to get her side of the family in the Netherlands to come and visit the Philippines. She extended repeated invitations, shared photos after photos, offered free food and accommodations as well as land travel arrangements, etc.

For her effort, her dad visited twice, her brother and sister came once and her brother in-law visited twice, once for tourism and once for work. Miracles upon miracles, she finally got her nephew and his fiancée to visit just before Christmas 2023. But that was after she threatened to disown the whole lot and not come home to the Netherlands.

In the past, we thought it was all about funds and costs of…

Hundreds of business representatives will gather in Cape Town from 10 to 12 April for the Tourism Investment Forum Africa (Tifa). This is reported by
Pretoria News, a partner of TV BRICS.

The aim of the event is stated to be the development of business linkages between stakeholders and decision makers in the trade and investment aspects of the tourism ecosystem.

Forum organiser Miller Matola said that attracting funds to the tourism industry is bound to create jobs.

“By bringing investment you are facilitating the creation of employment but you are also ensuring inclusive economic growth,” he said.

Miller Matola explained that it is mainly small and medium-sized companies that operate in this sector, so the development of the tourism industry…

B.C.’s tourism minister said the cost of hosting the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup has gone up, but she is not prepared to share those figures with the public yet.

“The numbers have changed substantially since we have received news of getting two more games (from the initial five),” Lana Popham acknowledged Tuesday (Feb. 27). “(So) we don’t have any working number today to give you but we’ll have that soon.”

Popham acknowledged that she has a “ballpark” figure of the additional costs, but she added that she was not prepared to give that figure right now. Staff are working on final numbers, she said.

“But I will repeat that those two extra games give us a bigger…

Ministry of Tourism, Government of India organised Roadshows at New Delhi and Mumbai on 26th and 27th April with the objective of raising awareness among stakeholders in the Travel and Tourism Industry about the forthcoming 1st Global Tourism Investors’ Summit. The Minister for Tourism, Culture and DoNER, Shri G. Kishan Reddy chaired the two Roadshows along with senior Ministerial officers.

Addressing attendees at the Roadshow, Shri G. Kishan Reddy said, “Considering the plethora of experiences the Indian tourism industry offers, such as wellness tourism, adventure tourism, eco-tourism, rural tourism, spiritual tourism and several others, both the State and Central Governments recognise the role that tourism can play in driving economic growth. Therefore, private…