Well when I bought a package in 2008 and told my mum I was going I was told by them that parts of the Philippines were to dangerous to travel to .I think one of them had read the travel advice on the Philippines.I said I was not goint to the dangerous parts mentioned in the travel advice at the time but they would not agree the country was safe to visit and tried to persuade me to cancel the package.After telling them I was not going to the dangerous parts that is at the time the parts that were not safe to travel to going by the travel advice pages.I don't know only that maybe she had heard that some people there are very poor.