Why Philippines is not a favourite tourist destination ?

[RickyR]

I don't totally agree with the "it's too far" excuse, because Australia is much further and remains very very popular.

If it wasn't for Marvie I wouldn't have gone back to the Philippines, nor lived there. The people are wonderful and there are some things worth seeing.

I've travelled the world extensively, well over a hundred countries visited. I thoroughly enjoy visiting Thailand, Malaysia, Bali, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, Macau, Korea but in the Philippines get easily tired.

There are some amazingplaces in the world, whether its the Inca Trail in Peru, The Pyramids in Egypt, the Great Wall in China. As has been said above, it's hard to find a real pull to the Philippines.

If their was a real focus and energy put into encouraging and developing tourism, then the country has fantastic potential.

[gWaPito]

I don't totally agree with the "it's too far" excuse, because Australia is much further and remains very very popular.

If it wasn't for Marvie I wouldn't have gone back to the Philippines, nor lived there. The people are wonderful and there are some things worth seeing.

I've travelled the world extensively, well over a hundred countries visited. I thoroughly enjoy visiting Thailand, Malaysia, Bali, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, Macau, Korea but in the Philippines get easily tired.

There are some amazingplaces in the world, whether its the Inca Trail in Peru, The Pyramids in Egypt, the Great Wall in China. As has been said above, it's hard to find a real pull to the Philippines.

If their was a real focus and energy put into encouraging and developing tourism, then the country has fantastic potential.

Very nice if you got deep pockets and all the time in the world...either that or work for a shipping company

I wonder out of all those tourists going to Oz are actually visiting family...a great many I guess.

[Arthur Little]

I wonder out of all those "tourists" going to Oz are actually visiting family ...a great many I guess.

... I'd say it IS, without doubt, by far the MAIN reason!

[Tawi2]

Why isnt pinas a favourite tourist destination?Well,to be honest if I hadnt any links whatsoever I would have went a few times then scrapped it and moved on,apart from decent beaches and maybe the chocolate hills what else is there to look at?Seen one rice terrace you seen them all to be truthfull,the service in Pinas is often abysmal,not that I am a hotel sort of person,but it is,everything tourist based in pinas seems to revolve around Boracay which is no better than a number of thai islands it seems to try and model itself on A lot of western tourists to pinas arent genuine tourists but husbands/wives/partners of pinays/pinoys,Pinas reminds me of an english speaking indonesia,both have terrorist problems,both are a walk on the wild side with endemic corruption etc and both are hassle to travel around at times,small wonder places like thailand,malaysia,cambodia,laos etc are preferred destinations,saying that pinas is ok,its got a certain charm

[ConfusedMe]

Same thing as my hubby told me. He never knew that Philippines exists until he met me. I remember his face when he first landed there and I brought him straight to meet my whole family, sight seeing, beaches and island hopping. He never stopped talking about the experience to his family and friends eventhough I finally moved to UK with him. That's the first whole month vacation where he still have pocket money left when he got home.

If it wasn't for Marvie I wouldn't have gone back to the Philippines, nor lived there. The people are wonderful and there are some things worth seeing.