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Posted in Tourism on January 30th, 2012 by admin – Comments Off
ALMOST THREE MILLION TOURISTS visited Thailand, India, Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines last 2007, says statistical reports , with some two hundred thousand of them visiting the Philippines in 2006 . Yet, Manila still struggles and keeps up behind said countries as 5th placing newcomer-player in the medical tourism ballgame. Yet, hope springs eternal.
The Philippine government, meantime, with an impending freshly-installed government under Benigno Aquino III, continues to strongly stress the importance of developing this sector as it is perceived as a “strategic tourism niche” for the years to come. The Tourism Department gears up , zeroing in on cosmetic surgery as the perfect pitch to surface in the global market , “now that it has jumped enthusiastically on board the medical tourism bandwagon.”
