Philippines wins Emerging Muslim-friendly Destination of the Year Award (Non-OIC)

Out of Town Blog
Philippines wins Emerging Muslim-friendly Destination of the Year Award (Non-OIC)

The Philippines has been awarded arsenic the Emerging Muslim-friendly Destination of the Year astatine the prestigious Halal successful Travel Global Summit 2023 connected June 1 successful Singapore, Tourism Secretary Christina Frasco announced.

The Halal successful Travel Global Summit 2023 recognizes destinations, organizations, companies, and individuals who person made a important interaction connected the Muslim manner question segment.

Philippines wins Emerging Muslim-friendly Destination of the Year Award

The Emerging Muslim-friendly Destination of the Year (non-OIC) grant is fixed to recipient destinations that cater to the unsocial needs and preferences of Muslim travelers.

The Muslim question marketplace is foreseen to importantly propel the tourism industry’s maturation with projections that Muslim traveller arrivals volition scope 140 cardinal successful 2023 and successful succeeding years could scope 230 cardinal with estimated expenditures of USD225 Billion by 2028.

“This grant is an affirmation of our collaborative efforts towards positioning the Philippines arsenic a preferred destination for Muslim travelers, and strategically processing our Halal Tourism portfolio crossed our regions. This planetary designation besides opens up tremendous opportunities for our state to present our affluent and divers civilization and practice evident successful our Muslim communities, and our immensely beauteous destinations, including Mindanao,” Secretary Frasco said.

According to Secretary Frasco, the Department of Tourism has focused connected processing the country’s halal tourism portfolio ensuring, among others, its prioritization successful the National Tourism Development Plan (NTDP) 2023-2028.

The DOT has besides implemented a wide scope of services and amenities designed to cater to Muslim travelers. These see the behaviour of a broad inventory of Halal-certified eating options and the pursuit of accrued Halal accreditations for tourism enterprises crossed the country, arsenic good arsenic the behaviour of Halal Awareness Orientations with Tourism Stakeholders, and accusation dissemination with tourism enterprises connected the values, beliefs, and practices of Muslim-travelers.

Recognizing planetary trends and preferences of Muslim travelers, Secretary Frasco said that the Department of Tourism has besides continued to prosecute its sustainable tourism improvement initiatives, and precocious inked a important statement with planetary wellness and wellness tourism person Agora to presumption the Philippines towards providing prime aesculapian and wellness tourism offerings particularly to the Middle Eastern market.

It volition beryllium recalled that aboriginal this year, the Department of Tourism organized the precise archetypal Mindanao Tourism Expo. This was followed by the palmy MICECON successful Davao jointly organized by the DOT, Tourism Promotions Board, and the backstage assemblage and City of Davao. Secretary Frasco besides precocious led the Mindanao Tourism Convergence held successful Zamboanga City successful collaboration with the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) and the Department of National Defense (DND).

Undersecretary Myra Paz Valderrosa-Abubakar accepted the grant connected behalf of the Department of Tourism and CrescentRating and HalalTrip, for recognizing the efforts of the Philippine authorities and tourism stakeholders.

“We anticipation to proceed the large stride connected tourism promotion and economical boost successful our state for our Muslim brothers and sisters who are arriving successful the Philippines and who are surely invited to sojourn and research our much than 7,000 islands with majestic achromatic soil beaches and lukewarm people,” Undersecretary Abubakar said.

Follow the Out of Town Travel Blog on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest if you privation much question and food-related updates.

Read:

• Department of Tourism Launches Halal Food Tourism
• Best 7 Restaurants successful Davao To Have Delicious Halal Food!

Philippines wins Emerging Muslim-friendly Destination of the Year Award (Non-OIC)
Melo Villareal
Out of Town Blog