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A couple of readers wrote to say I had been too kind to Tourism Secretary Mon Jimenez.

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The official figures are in: 19 million foreigners visited Thailand last year.

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I still haven’t met the new Tourism Secretary Ramon Jimenez Jr. and I only got reviews about him from my close friends in the Tourism industry on how they sized him up.

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A year and a half into the Aquino administration, our tourism marketing program still can’t move beyond slogans and logos.

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Now that the travel-averse President Aquino seems to have caught the travel bug, perhaps he will empathize with what Filipinos who have seen much of the world in the past years feel: the Philippines is being left behind.

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Now that there’s a new secretary of tourism, what happens to the comprehensive National Tourism Development Plan that was presented only about seven weeks ago to President Aquino?

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It’s finally September, the first of the “Ber” months leading to the month of December, thus Christmas is getting close. This also means that Department of Tourism (DoT) Secretary Albert Lim is officially resigned from the Tourism Office.

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President Aquino has chosen a new tourism secretary.

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Who do we serve and whose interest do we have in mind?

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We all heard the good statistics from P-Noy during his SONA.

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A couple of readers wrote to say I had been too kind to Tourism Secretary Mon Jimenez.

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I still haven’t met the new Tourism Secretary Ramon Jimenez Jr. and I only got reviews about him from my close friends in the Tourism industry on how they sized him up.

[DatePublished] => 2012-01-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135522 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805274 [AuthorName] => Bobit S. Avila [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 765833 [Title] => Beyond slogans [Summary] =>

A year and a half into the Aquino administration, our tourism marketing program still can’t move beyond slogans and logos.

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Now that the travel-averse President Aquino seems to have caught the travel bug, perhaps he will empathize with what Filipinos who have seen much of the world in the past years feel: the Philippines is being left behind.

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Now that there’s a new secretary of tourism, what happens to the comprehensive National Tourism Development Plan that was presented only about seven weeks ago to President Aquino?

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It’s finally September, the first of the “Ber” months leading to the month of December, thus Christmas is getting close. This also means that Department of Tourism (DoT) Secretary Albert Lim is officially resigned from the Tourism Office.

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President Aquino has chosen a new tourism secretary.

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Who do we serve and whose interest do we have in mind?

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We all heard the good statistics from P-Noy during his SONA.

[DatePublished] => 2011-07-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133182 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804837 [AuthorName] => Boo Chanco [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) ) )
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