Tourism Battlefields
distinctive story. Some of these sites are sacred and some are commemorating Tourism battlefields. More importantly, all of these places have contributed a sense of time, identity, and place to our understanding of Cavite as a whole. Tourism is travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people "traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year Metro Tagaytay Growth Corridor for leisure, business and other purposes". It has become a popular global leisure “Metro Tagaytay” is one major growth corridor of the Province. This would activity. Tourism is important, and in some cases, vital for many countries. It include the Municipalities of Silang, Alfonso, Mendez, Amadeo, Indang, was recognized in the Manila Declaration on World Tourism of 1980 as "an Magallanes, Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo (Bailen), Maragondon, Ternate and Tagaytay activity essential to the life of nations because of its direct effects on the social, City. These municipalities are also the areas with high potential for tourism cultural, educational and economic sectors of national societies and on their considering its desirable weather condition and proximity to Tagaytay City, the international relations. center of tourism in Cavite. The Philippines is a very blessed nation in terms of its natural attractions. Since Tagaytay City has its own identity as a popular tourist destination due to Similarly, Cavite abounds with great objects, and subjects, of culture and its cool environment and attractions, it would be utilized seemingly as a “lead history. It is the birthplace of a good number of Filipino heroes and it has an anchor” to tow its adjacent municipalities into prominence as well as a viable interesting range of sites associated with the Philippine Revolution of 1896.
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