Team Out of Town Hub (www.OutofTownBlog.com) – Time to gear up and get dive-ready as the Division of Tourism (DOT) phases the Philippine International Dive Expo (PHIDEX), the country’s biggest platform for the diving local community, from August 19 to 21, 2022 at the SMX Convention Heart in Pasay, Manila.
PHIDEX’s 3rd version seeks to continue the narrative of conservation, local community, and convergence within the diving group as a result of the topic “Back into the Blue: 1 with the Sea”.
The expo will also showcase the Philippines’ readiness to welcome dive travellers from all above the globe, gathering neighborhood and international dive industry industry experts, dive tour operators, and lover dive corporations to share their tips and activities.
“The entry of intercontinental tourists is a welcome growth that will guide to expansion in the vacation and tourism sector, restoration of jobs, and the generation of considerably-required income for tourism-connected enterprises and communities. We are optimistic that these financial rewards will also lengthen to dive places all around the country. The region stays a leading dive destination, which travellers all about the environment are keen to visit immediately after a extensive wait around of two yrs,” stated Tourism Enhancement Undersecretary Woodrow C. Maquiling, Jr.
“The DOT hopes to motivate divers to follow sustainability each and every time they dive to preserve the country’s seas. Sustainable diving techniques are a massive part of the rationale why the country’s dive destinations continue to run regardless of difficulties brought by the pandemic,” Undersecretary Maquiling additional.
PHIDEX is the only dive display in the planet that brings together in a single function a Dive Journey Trade (TRAVEX), a organization-to-company (B2B) meeting application for local and intercontinental dive operators, dive conferences,s and seminars, and familiarization tours to the top rated and emerging Philippine dive destinations. Exhibition booths will showcase dive resorts and centers in distinct places and best-rated dive gear and tools.
As a result of conferences, individuals will also have a opportunity to understand about new dive destinations developed during the pandemic, products updates from crucial dive locations, as nicely as up-to-date underwater pictures equipment showcases. Worldwide dive operators will also get to examine and assess top rated and rising dive places this sort of as Anilao, Bohol, Camiguin, Coron, Dumaguete, Malapascua, Moalboal, and Puerto Galera, Southern Leyte, and Ticao Island via familiarization tours.
At least 100 area and international dive buyers and media from the Philippines, US, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Korea, Japan, Thailand, and Singapore, are envisioned to show up at the expo. In the meantime, functions these kinds of as Dive TRAVEX and Dive Conference will be available on-line for participants unable to show up at because of to intercontinental border restrictions.
Registration as client and trade readers and exhibition booth reservations will open up on June 24, 2022, through https://register.phidex.asia/. For additional info pertaining to the PHIDEX functions, adhere to Dive Philippines on Facebook and Instagram or electronic mail the PHIDEX Organizing Committee at [email protected].
