Travel to the Philippines

Welcome, and Thank You for Visiting the new and improved Travel to the Philippines website, brought to you by The Filipino Pavilion and Travel Emporium. Although this site is devoted to topics about travel to the Philippines, a lot of the tips and advice can be used no matter where you travel. We've tried to cover not only topics such as golfing in the Philippines, cultural activities, Philippine beaches, backpacking, hiking, mountain climbing, and night-time entertainment, but also on how to get a good airfare, using a consolidator, trip cancellation insurance, and how to find a good travel agent. As we add more information to this site, our hope is to become the "go to" site for all things related to travel to the Philippines. If you have some suggestions as to what you would like to see on our site, please let us know. Thank you again for visiting. We hope you enjoy the site and find some useful information.

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If you were to ask six different people sitting in the same section of an airplane, all taking the same flight, what each paid for his ticket, you'd probably get six different replies. Sound strange? As ludicrous as it may seem, the price you pay for airtravel has little to do with the number of miles you're flying.

It has to do with how savvy a traveler you are.

If you haven't figured it out already, there's more work involved to getting a good (cheap) travel deal than just calling your travel agent. Assuming that you have a good agent (and they're hard to find), this person is not necessarily knowledgeable about the discount possibilities available. Promotions change constantly, discount qualifications are amended, and airfares change even more frequently (there are several hundred thousand airfare-changes made daily. The average life of a fare is about 5 days.)

The airline fare-setters have literally become like commodity brokers, sitting in front of their screens, trying to squeeze the last bit of profit out of the market by changing the allocations of low-priced fares. If there are a lot of empty seats, more low-priced fares with less restrictions are offered. If a check of the competing airline's computer reservation system (CRS) shows that a flight is sold out, the first airline immediately withdraws all its own low-priced fares on its competing flights. Is it possible for your agent to keep up with all the changes? Very unlikely. Armed with the information from this web site, you will know where and how to track down the best deals, who to talk to and what to say, thereby keeping more of your hard-earned money in your pocket.

This web site certainly isn't designed to replace a good travel agent, but rather to help you help your agent get you the best deal possible.

Although much of this information can be used for travel to other parts of the world, having a personal interest in the Philippines and Southeast Asia myself, I created this site with that destination specifically in mind.