PH urged to cooperate with Asean for tourism growth

The Philippines will need to cooperate and at the same time compete with Asean’s regional tourism powerhouses to be able to sustain the country’s gains in tourism, industry officials said.

“We can bring the world to us. But at the same time, as different economies, we have to compete, so… we have coined a new word for this, ‘coopetition.’ So we cooperate and at the same time we compete,” Jay Yuvallos, Philippine representative, Asean Business Advisory Council (ABAC), said during the 3rd Philippine Tourism Forum held recently at the SMX Convention Center, Mall of Asia Complex in Pasay City.