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At the First Tourism Jobs Fair held at the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC) on April 6 to 8 , Tourism Secretary Joseph Ace Durano said more than 34,000 jobs are available to college graduates in Manila, Cebu and Davao in the first quarter of 2006 alone.  Tourism can lead the Philippine economy to an accelerated growth given the right focus and priority, a senior economist of the Asian Development Bank said."If Thailand can attract 12 to 13 million foreign tourists, I don't see any reason why the Philippines cannot," said ADB economist Jesus Felipe. The ADB said the country's gross domestic product would most likely grow by 5.0 percent in 2006 and 5.3 percent in 2007, but such growth could accelerate until 2010. Felipe said tourism is a promising sector that could be a provider of growth for the Philippines. Given the right infrastructure and training, he said, the Philippines can make tourism a major industry such as in Carribean countries Puerto Rico, Cuba and Costa Rica. While international tourist arrivals in the Philippines surged by 14.5 percent to a historic high 2.623 million in 2005 from 2.291 million in 2004, such figure was way below the more than ten million tourists visiting its neighbors such as Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore.
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Tourism Secretary Joseph Ace Durano said that in the first two months of 2006, arrivals grew further by 17 percent to more than 500,000, the highest in record, which in turn has created jobs for the Filipinos. The target for the year is 3 million foreign tourists.
Durano said the Tourism Jobs Fair (TJF) is the first industry-specific jobs fair exclusive to the travel and tourism industry in the whole of Asia.
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