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Cebu Pacific leads local airlines in offering the most number of ASEAN routes and destinations from the Philippines

Cebu Pacific stated that, apart from being the number one domestic carrier in the Philippines, it now leads local airlines in serving ASEAN, offering 92 direct weekly services on the most number of ASEAN routes and destinations from the Philippines.
“Our ASEAN service has topped the industry without counting help from other airlines through code shares, [...]

Cebu Pacific offers P1 fares to all domestic destinations

Cebu Pacific is offering P1 (USD0.02) one-way fares on all its domestic destinations for travel from 01-Jan-08 and 12-Mar-08. The airline has allocated more than 100,000 seats for the sale.
The one-way fare, which can be purchased between 28-Nov-07 and 02-Dec-07 (or until seats are sold out) is exclusive of fuel and insurance surcharges, ranging from [...]

Silay City hosts Adobo Festival

The Negros Cultural Foundation Inc. will hold a culinary contest called “Adobo: A Culinary Tradition, 1st National Adobo Challenge,” Nov. 9-11, at the Balay Negrense Museum in Silay City, Negros Occidental.
The competition, organized nine years ago as part of the Sinco de Noviembre celebration, will now gather chefs from all over the country to [...]

Surigao town’s “Inuwak” flies high in Bonok-Bonok 2007 festival

by Harvey Entendez Diaz

Surigao del Norte – For the second time around, the contingent from the Municipality of Bacuag, Surigao del Norte, was declared the grand champion in the Bonok-Bonok Maradjaw Karadjaw Festival 2007 held on September 10 at the City Hall grounds in Surigao City.

Over 1.5 million tourists flocked to the Philippines

Over 1.5 million tourists flocked to the Philippines’ tourist spots in the first six months of this year, official figures from the Philippine Department of Tourism has revealed.
The Philippines’ international tourist arrivals for January to June 2007 reached 1,528,507, an increase of 7.6 percent from the 1,420,040 visitors recorded in the same period last year, [...]

The Pearl of the Orient in a Glance

Author: David Poarch
The Philippines, also known as the pearl of the orient, is an archipelago located in southeast Asia. It consists of about 7,000 islands; a little more if it’s low tide. It’s quite hot all year round, and it seems that the heat only dissipates sometimes during the monsoon season or “wet season.” During [...]

New Shanghai-Cebu charter flights to boost tourism

 The Department of Tourism (DOT) has confirmed the operation of China Southern Airline’s regular charter flight service from Shanghai to Cebu beginning July 27, 2007. The new flight offerings are part of the department’s plans to maximize the growing Chinese outbound travel market.