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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.

Due to my work, I tend to stay in hotels a lot of the time, and I generally prefer smaller hotels, as you tend to get better service than in the larger hotels.

Producing is a thankless task akin to hotel management. Unfortunately, there are not too many good hotel managers.

I've been working in boutique hotels my whole life.

My new hotels will play a leading role in promoting world peace.

I wanted to start a hotel company from scratch.

In Singapore, there is this life and locals and restaurants and then big casinos and an array of chefs, and even Miami is almost close to Vegas when it comes to an amazing presentation of chefs. But they don't have these massive hotels that have become their own culinary villages.

Central Philippines has the competitive edge in tourism in its natural wonders and the extraordinary hospitality of its people.

Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality.

What makes us unique is that we actually build things. Unlike most hotel companies who just manage and have no experience building, designing, and developing a hotel, we started off on the opposite track. We started off building. We're construction guys first and foremost.