The Importance of Tourism: A Decade of Tourism Act of 2009

The Tourism Act of 2009 states that tourism as an indispensable element of the national economy and an industry of national interest and importance, which must be harnessed as an engine of socio-economic growth and cultural affirmation to generate investment, foreign exchange and employment, and to continue to mold an enhanced sense of national pride for all Filipinos.

Last 2019, Tourism Act celebrated one decade of being a policy. Based on the video that you watched, did tourism change the lives of locals? How? 10 years from now, what do you think are the major changes that tourism will bring to the Filipino people?