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Khiri Travel adds Philippines to its portfolio

September 12, 2024200 Views

Khiri Travel has added The Philippines to its destinations with the acquisition of Travel Authentic Philippines. The Philippines becomes Khiri Travel’s ninth Asian destination, joining Thailand, Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Sri Lanka, The Maldives, and Myanmar. Travel Authentic Philippines (TAP) Country Manager, Paulette Viacrucis, will retain her role with Khiri Travel Philippines. She will be supported by Stuart Tayler, who will lead the development and updating of product offerings from Khiri Travel’s office in Cebu City. Khiri Travel’s priority is to ensure that its Philippine products satisfy the broad range of tour operator clients that it currently serves. These include specialist operators in sectors such as educational travel, adventure, luxury, as well as indivi...

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Philippine Airlines fly high with IBS Software’s iFly Staff

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January 10, 2024574 Views

Philippine Airlines (PAL) and its affiliate carrier, PAL Express (PALex), have embarked on the next phase of their journey to deploy IBS Software’s iFly Staff travel solution. Built to improve travel operational efficiency for airline employee travellers, iFly Staff is a SaaS solution designed to automate the end-to-end business and leisure travel booking process for airline employees. The partnership with iFly Staff enables PAL and PALex employees, dependents and retirees to plan, book and manage their travel requirements for leisure and business trips via multiple channels and devices. PAL is the first Southeast Asian SaaS customer of IBS Software and the fourth from the Asia-Pacific region. Since the go-live, iFly Staff has significantly improved the travel experiences of ...

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Oil spill hits tourism in Philippine province

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March 8, 2023840 Views

Resorts in a Philippine province known for world-class beaches and dive spots are reeling from the impact of an oil spill just off the coastline, as tourists cancel reservations during what is supposed to be peak season. Authorities are racing to recover a tanker that sank off Oriental Mindoro province carrying 800,000 litres (211,338 gallons) of industrial fuel oil when it suffered engine trouble on Feb. 28 in rough seas. An aerial view shows the oil spill from the sunken fuel tanker MT Princess Empress on the shores of Pola, in Oriental Mindoro province, Philippines, March 8, 2023. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez "We are saddened because all the tourists that booked us for the summer season and the upcoming Holy Week have already cancelled," said Marino Enriquez, a resort manager in the t...

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Philippines to offer tax refund to foreign tourists by 2024

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January 29, 2023999 Views

Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos has approved a value-added tax refund programme for foreign tourists by 2024 to attract more visitors, the Presidential Communications Office (PCO) said on Sunday. The government collects a 12% VAT on goods consumed within the Southeast Asian country. The plan is to allow foreigners to get a VAT refund on items they are taking out of the Philippines, similar to what many other countries offer. The measure is among the proposals a private sector advisory council presented to Marcos recently to boost the tourism industry, including improving airport infrastructure and operations and promoting tourism investment, the PCO said in a statement. Passengers queue at airline counters in the Ninoy Aquino International Airport, in Pasay City, Metro Man...

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Manila airport scrambles to restore normalcy

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January 2, 2023977 Views

The Philippines' main gateway scrambled to resume full services on Monday after a New Year power outage jolted its air traffic control and disrupted 300 flights, prompting calls from business leaders and a top senator for urgent action. A failure of primary and secondary power supplies caused the outage at Ninoy Aquino airport, and it should take about 72 hours for airlines to normalise their operations, said Cesar Chiong, general manager of the Manila International Airport Authority. Passengers queue at an airline counter in the Ninoy Aquino International Airport, in Pasay City, Metro Manila, Philippines, January 2, 2023. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez There were 361 flights delayed, cancelled or diverted to other regional airports on Sunday, affecting about 65,000 passengers, while may o...

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Philippines street transforms into Christmas wonderland

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December 22, 2022885 Views

A regular residential street in the Philippines has been transformed into a Christmas wonderland, drawing a throng of daily visitors with its dazzling lights, festive decorations and artificial snowfall. People visit the Christmas-themed house in Manila, Philippines, December 14, 2022. REUTERS/Lisa Marie David The features in the capital Manila include dozens of flashing life-size Christmas figurines, intricately arranged lights that stretch across the street, and more than 50 sacks of rock salt covering the ground to create a wintry look in city where temperatures have hovered close to 30 degrees Celsius. The show is the work of Filipino entrepreneur Irene Tan, 55, whose passion for decorating her house has expanded in the past 15 years to include those of her neighbours and now...

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Global tourism to recover from pandemic by 2023, post 10-year growth spurt

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April 21, 2022609 Views

Expected to create nearly 126 million new jobs within the next decade, says WTTC report The global travel and tourism sectors are projected to return to pre-pandemic levels in 2023 and grow at a rate that will outpace global gross domestic product (GDP) growth, the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) said on Thursday. The industry is expected to post an annual average growth rate of 5.8% from 2022 to 2032 versus the 2.7% increase in global GDP, and create 126 million new jobs, WTTC said in a report released during the industry group's conference in Manila. Report reveals the Travel & Tourism sector is expected to create nearly 126 million new jobs within the next decade. FILE PHOTO: A partially underwater shot shows the waters at the beach of Maya Bay as Thailand reopens ...

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Philippines welcomes back foreign tourists for first time in two years

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February 10, 2022623 Views

The Philippines welcomed back more than 200 foreign tourists on Thursday, becoming the latest Southeast Asian nation to reopen in a bid to revive a battered tourism sector after its borders shut to visitors nearly two years ago due to the pandemic. Popular for its white sand beaches and rich marine life, the Philippines has seen a sharp drop in coronavirus cases. Tourism officials at Manila's airport greeted passengers flying in from countries including the United States and China to visit beaches or reunite with family and friends. FILE PHOTO: A couple enjoys a view of White Beach amid the coranavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Boracay Island, Aklan province, Philippines, November 29, 2021. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez "I think it will be a good boost for tourism and the Filipin...

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Philippines to reopen in February to vaccinated foreign tourists

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January 28, 2022648 Views

The Philippines will grant entry to visitors vaccinated against COVID-19 from Feb. 10, its government said on Friday, in an effort to boost a tourism sector decimated by the pandemic. The archipelago nation of more than 7,000 islands had planned to reopen in December, but that was aborted over concerns about the Omicron variant. FILE PHOTO: A couple enjoys a view of White Beach amid the coranavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Boracay Island, Aklan province, Philippines, November 29, 2021. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez Citizens of 150 countries that have visa-free entry to the Philippines will be allowed to enter. "(This) will contribute significantly to job restoration, primarily in tourism-dependent communities, and in the reopening of businesses that have earlier shut down," Tour...

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Tourism pause helps Philippines clean up island paradise

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December 3, 20211311 Views

For 23-year-old tour guide Samuel Garilao, the beaches on the popular Philippines island of Boracay have never been cleaner and the water never clearer. Growing up on Boracay, Garilao is used to seeing the tiny but over-developed island crowded with tourists, and struggling with a waste problem so bad that President Rodrigo Duterte closed it in 2018, calling it a "sewer pool". A couple enjoys a view of White Beach amid the coranavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Boracay Island, Aklan province, Philippines, November 29, 2021. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez But with the Philippines largely shut off from the outside world due to the coronavirus and with domestic tourism tightly managed, Boracay has had a rare chance to recover. "When the lockdown started, we saw less trash because ther...