Travel Threat to the Philippines
By blue30
@blue30 (66)
Philippines
November 5, 2010 6:56pm CST
Are you amenable with some countries releasing a ban or travel advisory to the Philippines after a strong allegation on terrorist attack? What do you think is the biggest impact on this to the country?
3 responses
@maximax8 (31046)
• United Kingdom
23 Nov 10
I think that only a small part of the Philippines has terrorism. I heard that one time they went over to Palawan Island. I think that Manila is quite safe and so are the islands close to Cebu Island. I am still very keen to visit the Philippines. I would like to go island hopping and snorkeling there. I think it can be damaging for the tourist industry to say the Philippines has a terrorist attack. Sometimes national news in some countries can be misleading.
@jeanneyvonne (5501)
• Philippines
23 Nov 10
Travel advisories against the Philippines is nothing new, I guess the only reason that we're riled up is that basically either other countries are misinformed of our current security status or the government itself is hiding or unsure about our own security status.
I can't blame other countries (especially after the Quirino incident)but they also cannot blame us for crying foul. We don't exactly have terrorists experts to counter the terrorism or security problem in our country (Abu Sayyaf and others0. There is no exact future or resolution in the area as the people concerned would mostly drag negotiations until they decided that they can't agree on anything.
Tourism is the most affected industry with regard to our country. Our international reputation (or whatever remains of it) remains to be seen in this confusing and pointing fingers world.