The Philippine Division of Overseas Affairs (DFA) introduced that the Philippines received the Greatest Diving Vacation spot award on the 2024 Diving Resort Journey (DRT) Present held earlier this month in Beijing.
Apart from this, the nation additionally received the Greatest Tourism Promotion Partnership award on the similar occasion.
In an official assertion to the media, Philippine ambassador to China Jaime FlorCruz stated that the citations are proof that the present administration’s efforts to current the nation as a premier international diving vacation spot are working.
FlorCruz likewise cited the massive income potential in strengthening this explicit area of interest within the Philippine tourism sector. Up to now yr, diving contributed round PHP 73 billion to the tourism trade’s revenues, twice what it contributed in 2022.
Not resting on its laurels
At current, the Philippines is concentrated on creating various specialised tourism segments, with dive tourism on the prime of its record of priorities.
Earlier this yr, the Division of Tourism (DOT) introduced plans to determine extra 5 hyperbaric chambers in key dive locations within the nation together with Puerto Galera in Oriental Mindoro, Boracay, Cebu, Negros Oriental, in addition to Camiguin.
The 5 hyperbaric chambers increase the capability of the 15 chambers presently in use throughout the nation.
Up to now, the Philippine Fee on Sports activities Scuba Diving has developed and audited at the least 120 dive locations for each native and overseas diving fanatics.