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Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of the Philippines. From the current projection of 3.3 million tourist arrivals in 2010, our aim is to eventually attract 6 million tourists. In the process, we expect to create 3 million jobs in the next six years.

The Philippines is strategically located and blessed with the greatest resource: its people, who are hard-working, very loyal, and very adaptive.

I've worked with Filipino technicians, and they are, I think, among the best. I'm looking forward to visiting the Philippines, maybe for a vacation or to shoot a movie.

I have traveled to three-fourths of the Philippines.

The Filipino embraces civilization and lives and thrives in every clime, in contact with every people.

There are many beautiful and resource-rich areas all over the Philippines that are still undeveloped or under-developed. These areas offer opportunities for better master-planning and the emergence of better communities as well as cities.

The people in the Philippines are so extraordinarily nice.

The thing about tourism is that the reality of a place is quite different from the mythology of it.

I love my homeland, but it's an absurd country. Politics in the Philippines is like spectator sports!

Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.