New Year’s Eve

The Philippines has probably the loudest, if not the most festive celebration of New Year’s Eve, when fireworks light up the evening sky and sounds of a million firecrackers announce the coming of a new year. It is a spectacle of lights and sounds that dazzles the eyes and numbs the eardrums of midnight revelers. Happy New Year!

The Department of Tourism participated in the Spa Industry Seminar, an international spa event held at Shangri-La Mactan Island and Resort in Cebu on September 15 to 17, 2006. The country also hosted the Wellness Summit in 2007 at EDSA Shangri-la Hotel in Mandaluyong City where some 500 to 800 foreign participants attended. more…