Philippine Tourism News

October is fast approaching and the City of Bacolod is busy preparing for the biggest event, The Masskara Festival 2008. The streets of Bacolod City known as the City of Smiles will once again party with loud music. Visitors will enjoy watching hundreds of dancers dancing with colorful costume and decorated smiling mask.

Masskara Festival, Philippines most colorful festival, will commence on October 1-21, 2008 with lots of excitement, surprises and activities that the local government of Bacolod and the Masskara Organizers has prepared in the upcoming event.

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General Santos will be celebrating its 10th Tuna Festival in commoration of the City’s 40th Charterhood Day that is scheduled from August 29 to September 7, 2008. This years 10th Tuna Festival, the theme is “A decade of fish-tivities and oppor-Tuna-ties”.

General Santos’ Tuna Festival 2008, you expect more surprises and exciting activities that the local government and organizers have prepared like the Sashimi Night, Tuna Congress, Tuna Float Competition, Ms. Gensan, The Karagatan Awards, the Bankarirahan and many more. There are other skills and talent competitions in the 10th Tuna Festival that could entertain the locals especially the local and visitor tourist to watch such as the Pop Idol Contest, the Cheerdance Pasiklaban Competition, The Body Fest, The Fish Fest at the Fort and the Tuna Culinary Skills Competition.

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Davao will once again celebrate Kadayawan Festival in high spirits this August 2008. The 2008 Kadayawan Festival in Davao city is a celebration of abundance where people of Davao is celebrating its bounty there is a need to value the earth, the land, the natural resources and harvest. This is a much awaited event that people of Davao city is waiting for. Also local and foriegn tourist want to come to Davao to experience the merry making in this year Kadayawan Festival 2008. The theme for this year’s Kadayawan Festival 2008 is “Musanay Lumadnong Kagikan, Yutang Kabilin Panalipdan” (”Flourishing Indigenous Heritage, Protecting Ancestral Nations”).

The 2008 Kadayawan Festival will be a grand celebration here in Davao City and the events of Kadayawan Festival will not be commercialized eventhough the tourism sector find interest in Davao’s Festival the Kadayawan Festival. This years 2008 Kadayawan Festival is open to everyone both tourist and local who wants enjoy the festivities and events. This is the main object of Davao city’s Kadayawan festival, to bring more guests especially tourist.

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The Aliwan Festival, known as the mother of all Philippine festivals, is anticipated every year in the Philippines by many locals and tourist because it offers new levels of excitement. As we all know that here in the Aliwan Festival, it gathers all the best festivals and fiesta in the country and incorporate into one grander and colorful celebration in Manila. Aliwan festival once again promotes the colorful and vibrant festivals of the Philippines. You will experience the non-stop merry-making and streetdancing from the Quirino Grandstand to the Aliw Theater in the highlights of the Festivities this coming May 3, 2008. It’s the best of the best festivals that heats up Manila in he celebration of the Aliwan Festival this coming May to May 3, 2008.

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This is a week long religious eventcelebrated by the people of Marinduque. Moriones Festival starts on Holy Monday and ends on Easter Sunday. The 2008 Moriones Festival is a very colorful event in the Philippines which people are eager to experience. Visitors such as tourists and locals will see the participants in colorful costumes re-enact the story of Longinus, a Roman centurion who, it is said, speared the crucified body of Jesus Christ. The 2008 Moriones Festival will be celebrated starting on March 17, 2008  and will end on March 23, 2008.

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Filipinos has a very strong spiritual culture and for many years, The Virgin Mary still remains as the powerful symbol. Most Filipinos are praying the rosary everyday. We can see the image and the of the Virgin Mary anywhere in homes, church, chapels, schools, offices and etc. This attracts people from different cultural and religious backgrounds.

In this, Filipinos are celebrating festivals in honor of the Virgin Mary. These are Marian Festivals and are celebrated in different parts of the country. There are also towns and cities in the Philippines that aside from celebrating the festivals in honor of a town’s or city’s patron saint, each also has their own claim to the Virgin Mary with a festivity in Her honor and vigorously celebrated throughout the year.

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It’s festival time in the Philippines. Philippines is well known for its festivals that is celebrated all year round. Filipino people are festival or fiesta loving people. Now that it is summer means that it is the festival season her in the country. In the Philippine history, this fiesta or festival started way back 400 years ago during the Spanish Era. Most of the festival celebrated is to honor patron saints. Some festivals is to commemorate an event in history or show gratitude for a good harvest.

The festivals in Philippines nowadays are celebrated to boost up tourism in the country. The festivals and fiesta in the Philippines are celebrated with plenty of food, singing and dancing. The major cities in the Philippines celebrates the festivals with street dancing in the festive music, parading of floats and shouting in the streets in to the beat of the drums.

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Summer time in the Philippines is also called the fiesta time because there are many festival that is celebrated all over the country. But there is one festival that is celebrated that incorporates all the different festivals of the Philippines into one grander, louder and more colorful festival that is happening outside of their own provinces and right at the core of Manila, the Aliwan Festival.

Aliwan Fiesta is known as the mother of all Philippine festivals will be celebrated on April 26 and 28. The Aliwan Festival is on its fifth year and organized by the Manila Broadcasting Company (MBC) together with the cities of Manila and Pasay, and the Cultural Center of the Philippines. Aliwan Festival brings tourist attraction in Manila because it has so much to offer and brings a new level of excitement.

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Pagsanjan Laguna is celebrating it’s Pagsanjan Bangkero Festival starting today until March 18. Pagsanjan is named as the tourist capital of Laguna and one of the popular world class tourist destination of the Philippines because of its natural wonders and enchanted scenic views. The main tourist attraction in Pagsanjan is the Pagsanjan Falls. The ‘bangkeros’ are tour guides that steer the tourists’ bancas, they are called the boatmen who shoot the rapids all the way to the world-famous Pagsanjan Falls.

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Baguio City Celebrates its 12th year Panagbenga Festival as local residents of Baguio City are busy preparing for the festivities. Baguio blooms like a flower for one glorious day in February and Baguio City has so much to offer to it’s visitors especially tourist. In the Panagbenga Festival all the flowers in Baguio City and the Nothern Philippines are shown and displayed at its best rom regal roses to over–the-top–orchids. That is why many tourist wanted to experience the excitement of the festivities.

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