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Wow Philippines. Wow Philippines (stylized as WOW Philippines) was a tourism marketing campaign used to promote tourism in the Philippines from 2002 to 2012. The name of the campaign also served as its tagline .
Conceptualization. It's More Fun in the Philippines! was conceptualized in 2011 as the Philippines' tourism marketing campaign. It was finalized during the administration of Department of Tourism (DOT) Secretary Ramon Jimenez. This is the second attempt under the administration of Philippine President Benigno Aquino III to come up with a ...
Wowowin. Ma. Luisa Cadag (2015-16) Wowowin is a Philippine television variety show broadcast by GMA Network and All TV. Hosted by Willie Revillame, it premiered on May 10, 2015 on GMA Network. The show aired its final broadcast on GMA Network on February 11, 2022. The show premiered on All TV on September 13, 2022.
A Philippine Tourism Commission was created under the unified Trade and Tourism Department to oversee the growth of the tourism industry as a source of economic benefit for the country. In 1973, President Ferdinand Marcos created a new cabinet-level Department of Tourism (DOT) by splitting the Department of Trade and Tourism into two separate ...
The present name of the Philippines was bestowed by the Spanish explorer Ruy López de Villalobos [1] [2] or one of his captains Bernardo de la Torre [3] [4] in 1543, during an expedition intended to establish greater Spanish control at the western end of the division of the world established between Spain and Portugal by the treaties of Tordesillas and Zaragoza.
Pilipinas Kay Ganda ( lit. 'Philippines, So Beautiful') was a short-lived advertising campaign made by the Department of Tourism to promote tourism in the Philippines. Launched in 2010, it replaced the WOW Philippines campaign that was launched in 2002. The tourism slogan and the associated logo used for the campaign were controversial and ...
Wao is the only predominantly Christian municipality in Lanao del Sur, with 80% of the population adhering to Roman Catholicism as of 2017, brought by these settlers who came from Luzon, Visayas and other parts of Mindanao. [16] The Roman Catholic church administrates its constituents in Wao as part of the Bukidnon -based Diocese of Malaybalay.
The more than 140 cities in the Philippines as of 2022 have taken their names from a variety of languages both indigenous (Austronesian) and foreign (mostly Spanish).The majority of Philippine cities derive their names from the major regional languages where they are spoken including Tagalog (), Cebuano, Ilocano, Hiligaynon, Bicolano, Kapampangan and Pangasinense.