{"id":46029,"date":"2015-03-31T22:41:39","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T14:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=46029"},"modified":"2015-03-31T22:41:39","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T14:41:39","slug":"group-eyes-phl-as-premium-travel-destination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/03\/31\/group-eyes-phl-as-premium-travel-destination\/","title":{"rendered":"Group eyes PHL as premium travel destination"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_46079\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46079\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/shutterstock_171320501.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46079\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/shutterstock_171320501.jpg\" alt=\"Coron, Palawan (Saiko3p \/ Shutterstock)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/shutterstock_171320501.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/shutterstock_171320501-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/shutterstock_171320501-900x600.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46079\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coron, Palawan (Saiko3p \/ Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u00a0 &#8212; S8 Exhibition Inc., a business group of some of the biggest travel agencies in the Philippines, eyes the country to be a high end travel destination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe country\u2019s tourism industry has grown by leaps and bounds over the last five years. The Philippines now has the capacity to serve the high end market that is looking to go beyond the standard hotel accommodations and tour packages,\u201d S8 Exhibition president Fe Abling Yu.<\/p>\n<p>Yu noted that there is a growing market of big spenders in the tourism sector after the upswing in per capita spending of tourists since 2013.<\/p>\n<p>To prepare the country for the high end travellers, the group is setting up a high end business-to-business (B2B) tourism exhibition from May 26 to 28 at the SMX Convention Center in Pasay City.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDubbed as the \u201c1st Asia Premium Travel Mart\u201d, the event will bring the country\u2019s leading hotels, resorts, and travel destinations together with 100 international buyers from Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Americas, Africa, and the Middle East in one venue,\u201d the group said.<\/p>\n<p>S8 Exhibition said the B2B event will be exclusive for luxury travel retail counselors, incentive travel managers, bespoke travel planners, corporate travel professionals, and wholesalers specializing in luxury and experiential tours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince we are offering luxury Philippine brands, we only want them to be partnered internationally to those that service clients that are after luxury or premium services,\u201d Yu stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want local tourism companies to be introduced to potential international partners through exchange of ideas, experiences, and then eventually establishing between themselves a strong level of cooperation,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0 &#8212; S8 Exhibition Inc., a business group of some of the biggest travel agencies in the Philippines, eyes the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":46079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,19,95,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-business","category-news-ph","category-travel","mauthors-kris-m-crismundo","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}