The Department of Tourism (DOT) is giving domestic travel a fresh playbook. Instead of simply telling Filipinos where to go, it is asking its regional offices to create reasons to visit—and reasons to return.
The country’s balance of payments (BOP) — the measure of all economic transactions between the country and the rest of the world, and essentially what remains after foreign earnings are offset against external obligations and outlays — recorded a deficit of US$5.3 billion in the first quarter of 2026.