The Filipino tourist’s most favorite place to visit is not Boracay, nor Palawan or Cebu. Metro Manila is the top destination of the domestic tourist, according to the results of the 2010 Household Survey on Domestic Visitors released in late November. National Capital Region had 7.124 million local travelers and 3.021 million of them said the purpose of their visit to the NCR was pleasure or vacation. The survey’s travel time frame is April to September last year. It was conducted by the National Statistics Office and the Department of Tourism. A far second favorite destination of Filipino tourists is Cavite with about 713,000 vacationing travelers. Negros Occidental, Batangas, and Bulacan round up the top five. Capiz, which is the province nearest Boracay, had only 236,000 domestic tourists passing through it and was ranked 20th. Tarlac did better than Capiz with 285,000 pleasure trippers. Palawan, where the Puerto Princesa Underground River is, did not even make it to the top 20 list of the NSO-DOT survey. The survey said Lanao del Sur in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao had 502,000 vacationing tourists, ranked 9th and drew more travelers than Pampanga, Iloilo, and Cebu Source:- http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/stor...-not-among-top-destinations-of-local-tourists
Well, the nature of the surveys is a bit "predictable". First of all they interview mainly in the NCR and then the "interviewers" are not very motivated to give unbiased surveys. They merely fill their quota, which way, its up to them. (I know this from a former friend who did work for them) Even the often done government survyes going from hosuehold to household are kind of " unusual". On one of those surveys i took the liberty to fill out the form of the surveyor, to his annoyance. He kept saying, "you do not need to fill this or that", but i said, "i do, as it is asked". Next day i asked the Brgy captain about it, because we are very close and he said " Of course ALL question should be answered in those survey forms, except when the questioned person denies an answer". mmmh...
