DAVAO CITY — The rise in international visitor arrivals has been supporting the peso appreciation this year, which is expected to continue given the growing interest in Philippine destinations.
Jose Clemente III, president of the Philippine Travel Agencies Association, said economists had overlooked that international tourism revenues helped the peso gain value against the US dollar.
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MAITUM, Sarangani, Philippines — Camera club members from the cities of Davao and General Santos shot their way to the top of the “3rd Maitum Photo Safari Photo Contest” last week as a highlight of the town’s annual Binuyugan Festival.
MANILA – Philippine Airlines has increased its planned Boeing 777-300
Extended Range fleet to a total of six aircraft – four on firm order and
two on lease – by exercising its purchase rights on two option airplanes
that were part of the original order last year.
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GENERAL SANTOS CITY- Seeing the need for further expanding trading ties
within BIMP-EAGA, the sub-region’s working group on sea linkages agreed
recently to revitalize the sea link connecting the tuna-belt region of
Southern Mindanao and North Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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MANILA — Team Unity candidates are committed to help build specialty hospitals in the regions, stuff them with modern medical equipment and continue honing the skills of their staff, with the ultimate goal of luring into the country the elderly and the infirm in search of the cure for their illnesses in countries other than their own.