Factors That Affect Local Tourism

While the Philippines is considered having unlimited tourist destinations compared to its counterparts in the ASEAN Region, we lagged behind in terms of tourism arrival as compared to such small city-state as Singapore and now beaten by Vietnam.

Here are some of the limiting factors that contribute to this dismal performance:

• inadequacy of hotel accommodation
• lack of flights into the country
• lack of information abroad about the country
• negative perception about the Philippines abroad
• limited number of developed tourism destinations
• poor infrastructure and connectivity in local travel

The government is doing nothing to solve these problems.