The Philippines acquired the celebrated Greatest Port of Name award at this yr’s Asia Cruise Awards in recognition of its efforts to spice up tourism via the cruise sector.
The Asia Cruise Leaders’ Community (ACLN) selected the nation in recognition of its efforts to spice up the cruise side of its tourism sector via numerous initiatives associated to giving international travellers and native cruise aficionados a secure, snug, and thrilling cease on their journeys.
The awards have been a part of this yr’s Asia Cruise Discussion board held in Jeju, South Korea.
For her half, Christina Frasco, secretary of the Division of Tourism (DOT), sees the award as recognition for the nation’s cruise tourism stakeholders for reviving the business following the COVID-19 pandemic.
Frasco mentioned: “[We have] recognized cruise tourism as one of many strategic merchandise able to attracting giant regional markets. With 7,641 islands, there may be immense potential in additional increasing the cruise tourism portfolio within the Philippines, and that’s the reason the hassle is to collaborate with our companions from the nationwide and native authorities models, personal sector stakeholders, and locations to develop our cruise tourism choices.”
The secretary added that the DOT may even work with their counterpart nationwide authorities businesses to amend a lot of present insurance policies with the last word purpose of creating it simpler and extra handy for worldwide cruises to name on the nation.
