“It seems they just stopped short of calling us paradise,” President Benigno Aquino 3rd said in his State of the Nation Address on Monday, boasting of the tourism success achieved in the past year.

Titles like “most romantic” and “best destination” by international publications were given to the Philippines in the past year, which could have contributed to the record-breaking 4.3 million tourist arrivals in the country in 2012.

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