MANILA – The Philippines is taking part within the World Expo 2025 to be held in Osaka, Japan, the Department of Tourism (DOT) introduced Saturday.
During her speech on the 2023 Japan Festival in Makati, Tourism Secretary Christina Frasco confirmed that President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. accredited Manila’s participation within the 184-day exposition.
The Philippines desires to additional foster its cultural and people-to-people ties with Tokyo, Frasco stated, including that “this mutual relationship we hope to be able to develop in the next few years.”
“To express our support for Japan, I am pleased to confirm that our President has approved our participation in the Expo 2025 in Osaka where the Philippines will show the best of the Filipino people,” she stated.
World Expos are one of many oldest and largest worldwide occasions, going down each 5 years and lasting six months.
The Philippines has participated in earlier expos held in Seattle, New York, Osaka, Brisbane, Vancouver, Seville, Hannover, Shanghai, and the latest one in Dubai.
The upcoming Expo 2025, which is predicted to attract about 28 million guests from the world over, will happen in Yumeshima, Osaka from April 13 to Oct. 13, 2025.
‘Important market’
In the identical occasion, Japanese Ambassador to the Philippines Kazuhiko Koshikawa stated Japan acknowledges the Philippines as a robust companion in reinvigorating the journey sector.
He famous that Marcos’ first working go to to Japan had opened a “promising new chapter” within the two nations’ relations, particularly on two-way tourism.
“In this new chapter, it is our priority to boost tourism exchange between our two countries. It is also my sincere wish for more Filipinos to travel to Japan, my country,” he stated.
Before the pandemic, the Philippines acquired greater than 682,000 Japanese nationals whereas greater than 600,000 Filipinos traveled to Japan.
Frasco likewise stated that Manila regards Japan as an essential tourism market.
She stated the DOT would proceed to provoke measures to enhance the Philippines’ tourism choices, resembling leisure, island hopping, seaside and nature locations, English as a Second Language, and golf tourism, to make them much more enticing to Japanese guests. (PNA)