...your opinion on the latest travel advisory against the philippines.

Most people who are always saying that Philippines is not safe for travelers, do not even know what they are talking about and they don't know anything about Philippines. They never had been to the Philippines and have no idea of the truth. It is true that there terrorist in the Philippines but not only here, in almost everywhere in the world now. Why only Philippines in travel advisory? If it is already your time, wherever you will go, that's your end.

In my home country we have advise offered on the Foreign and Commonwealth Office website. The USA and Australia both have a similar sort of website. I booked a flight to Colombia and my sister looked at the travel advise for that country. I read it and parts of it were shocking. I traveled to Cartagena De Indias which is considered totally safe. I also went to Santa Marta which had some dangers reported. I felt safe there but stayed in after dark just in case. I have always wanted to go island hopping and snorkeling in the Philippines. I know that is safe in most areas there. The travel advisory is being too cautious and terrorists are in just in some of the places. Life is peaceful in the Philippines at the moment so it is annoying for tourism concerns there I imagine. I traveled to the USA two months after that very upsetting 9/11 event. I wouldn't go to Pakistan or Afghanistan right now because those two countries are dangerous at the moment.

This is really alarming and sad when other countries would have this posted as an advisory to their places. But we don't need to be worry that much...there are more countries far more dangerous than ours..yet the tourism still exists and foreigners loves adventures. There's still a lot of hotel reservations...meaning tourists are coming to prove the warning and advisory and go back to their country unharmed and unscratched and say "i will go back to the Philippines again"

Hello Jeane, THe question is; "when the hell are we planning to get rid of our rebels"? Our very own military have a hard time triggering down the rebels; MILF,MNLF, ABUsayaff and the NPA. so, there's no doubt, possible terrorist attacks can occur. like what happened in the MAkati BUS bombing, when we were focus on the Car jacking problem, the terrorist took their chance and blew up a bus that killed innocent lives. but before that there was already a travel advisory into it. so i think it's their right to warn the citizens of their country. but we also should be alarmed and be vigilant. we haven't gotten rid of poverty so chances of terrorism in the Philippines remains HIGH still.

I think Mindanao is a never-changing subject of travel advisories. But people still come here. In fact, in Davao City, we have quite a large contingent of Asian and Caucasian retirees who have settled down here. Many have taken Filipina wives. This is not to mention Filipinos who have obtained foreign citizenship but who have decided to return and invest in Mindanao. Travel advisories? For the adventurous, they add a sense of excitement to travel and tourism.