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                    [ArticleID] => 355720
                    [Title] => Disconnect
                    [Summary] => BALI – At the height of the Abu Sayyaf kidnapping rampage, the government took pains to emphasize that Sulu and Basilan, where the mostly foreign hostages had been taken, were far from Manila and were not tourist destinations.


The attempt at damage control was largely futile; bookings were canceled and tourists stayed away from the entire country for many months. People in the tourism industry complained that no marketing blitz could counteract the daily bombardment of bad news in both the foreign and domestic press about the "southern Philippines."
[DatePublished] => 2006-09-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133252 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1807094 [AuthorName] => Ana Marie Pamintuan [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
MENTION PAKISTAN
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                    [Summary] => BALI – At the height of the Abu Sayyaf kidnapping rampage, the government took pains to emphasize that Sulu and Basilan, where the mostly foreign hostages had been taken, were far from Manila and were not tourist destinations.


The attempt at damage control was largely futile; bookings were canceled and tourists stayed away from the entire country for many months. People in the tourism industry complained that no marketing blitz could counteract the daily bombardment of bad news in both the foreign and domestic press about the "southern Philippines."
[DatePublished] => 2006-09-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133252 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1807094 [AuthorName] => Ana Marie Pamintuan [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) ) )
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