DOT’s Philippine International Dive Expo (PHIDEX) returns to Manila in August 2022

Workforce Out of Town Hub (www.OutofTownBlog.com) – Time to gear up and get dive-prepared as the Section of Tourism (DOT) stages the Philippine International Dive Expo (PHIDEX), the country’s greatest platform for the diving neighborhood, from August 19 to 21, 2022 at the SMX Conference Centre in Pasay, Manila.

PHIDEX’s 3rd version seeks to proceed the narrative of conservation, community, and convergence in just the diving group by way of the theme “Back into the Blue: 1 with the Sea”.

The expo will also showcase the Philippines’ readiness to welcome dive visitors from all above the world, collecting nearby and global dive business industry experts, dive tour operators, and associate dive companies to share their suggestions and experiences.

“The entry of intercontinental vacationers is a welcome growth that will lead to expansion in the travel and tourism sector, restoration of careers, and the era of a great deal-essential profits for tourism-associated enterprises and communities. We are optimistic that these economic benefits will also prolong to dive locations all over the place. The country remains a main dive location, which tourists all over the earth are keen to go to immediately after a prolonged hold out of two a long time,” explained Tourism Improvement Undersecretary Woodrow C. Maquiling, Jr.

“The DOT hopes to encourage divers to observe sustainability every single time they dive to protect the country’s seas. Sustainable diving techniques are a huge portion of the motive why the country’s dive places continue to function regardless of problems introduced by the pandemic,” Undersecretary Maquiling additional.

PHIDEX is the only dive show in the globe that brings together in a single event a Dive Travel Trade (TRAVEX), a business-to-company (B2B) assembly method for regional and global dive operators, dive conferences,s and seminars, and familiarization excursions to the top and emerging Philippine dive locations. Exhibition booths will showcase dive resorts and centers in distinct destinations and top rated-rated dive gear and equipment.

By way of conferences, members will also have a prospect to learn about new dive locations created all through the pandemic, solution updates from critical dive places, as effectively as up-to-date underwater pictures equipment showcases. Global dive operators will also get to examine and evaluate best and rising dive places these kinds of as Anilao, Bohol, Camiguin, Coron, Dumaguete, Malapascua, Moalboal, and Puerto Galera, Southern Leyte, and Ticao Island by familiarization excursions.

At minimum 100 local and worldwide dive prospective buyers and media from the Philippines, US, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Korea, Japan, Thailand, and Singapore, are anticipated to show up at the expo. In the meantime, functions such as Dive TRAVEX and Dive Conference will be available on the internet for members unable to go to due to intercontinental border limits.

Registration as shopper and trade site visitors and exhibition booth reservations will open on June 24, 2022, by way of https://register.phidex.asia/. For a lot more information and facts pertaining to the PHIDEX activities, observe Dive Philippines on Fb and Instagram or e-mail the PHIDEX Arranging Committee at [email protected].