Philippines named best diving destination at 2024 Diving Resort Travel Show

The Philippine Division of Overseas Affairs (DFA) introduced that the Philippines gained the Greatest Diving Vacation spot award on the 2024 Diving Resort Journey (DRT) Present held earlier this month in Beijing.

Except for this, the nation additionally gained the Greatest Tourism Promotion Partnership award on the identical occasion.

In an official assertion to the media, Philippine ambassador to China Jaime FlorCruz mentioned that the citations are proof that the present administration’s efforts to current the nation as a premier world 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 12 months, diving contributed round PHP 73 billion to the tourism business’s revenues, twice what it contributed in 2022.

Not resting on its laurels

At current, the Philippines is concentrated on creating a variety of specialised tourism segments, with dive tourism on the high of its record of priorities.

Earlier this 12 months, the Division of Tourism (DOT) introduced plans to determine further 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 at present in use throughout the nation.

To this point, the Philippine Fee on Sports activities Scuba Diving has developed and audited at the least 120 dive locations for each native and international diving fanatics.