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Travel agencies urge businesses to cater to Muslim visitors

By Donnabelle L. Gatdula | October 3, 2013 - 12:00am

The Philippine Travel Agencies Association (PTAA), the country’s largest group of travel agents, has urged local entrepreneurs to establish businesses catering to Muslim tourists such as halal-certified foods...

Business

Travel agencies push Northern Phl as next tourism frontier

By Donnabelle L. Gatdula | August 9, 2013 - 12:00am

One of the country’s biggest travel groups is pushing for the promotion of Northern Philippines as the next tourism industry frontier.

Business

PTAA lauds extension of accreditation to process passports for clients

By Donnabelle L. Gatdula | June 24, 2013 - 12:00am

The Philippine Travel Agencies Association (PTAA) welcomes the move of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to extend the accreditation of travel agencies to process passports for their clients.

Business

ISAFP agent killed at eatery

October 19, 2009 - 12:00am

An agent of the Intelligence Service of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (ISAFP) was shot dead at an eatery in Barangay Kamuning, Quezon City before dawn Saturday.

Metro

Powerlifting official killed

October 19, 2009 - 12:00am

A vice-president of the Powerlifting Association of the Philippines was shot by still unidentified gunmen Saturday and died on the spot in an eatery in Quezon City. He was 42.

Sports

Tourism expected to pick up in RP next year

By Ma. Elisa Osorio  | July 27, 2009 - 12:00am

BANGKOK, Thailand – Tourism is expected to pick up in the Philippines next year as the global financial crisis eases and the threat of influenza A(H1N1) moderates, the Philippine Travel Agents Association (PTAA)...

Business

Time to travel: Room rates, air fares down

By Ma. Elisa Osorio  | February 9, 2009 - 12:00am

MANILA, Philippines -- It’s a good time to travel nowadays as air fares have been slashed by as much as 50 percent while...

News Commentary

Kidnap gang leader nabbed in Batangas

September 28, 2002 - 12:00am

Police arrested yesterday in Tanauan City in Batangas the suspected mastermind in a string of kidnap-for-ransom cases in Metro Manila and nearby provinces, including the separate snatching of Robert Cheng, owner...

Headlines

Remains of 3 kidnap victims unearthed

April 27, 2002 - 12:00am

TANAUAN CITY, Batangas — Acting on information given by two arrested kidnapping suspects, police dug up yesterday the skeletal remains of a trader and his two aides who were abducted late last year, from an...

Nation