India and the Philippines have decided to enhance mutual cooperation in tourism sector. This was decided at the second meeting of the Joint Working Group on Tourism Cooperation held in New Delhi today. Both the
countries decided to identify areas for working together and exploring new opportunities in the sector, especially in the field of research and development, education and training and promotion and marketing.

The two sides also exchanged views for establishing mechanism to encourage exchange of information and data related to tourist arrivals and tourism resources to understand the dynamics of tourism sector in each others’ country. The two sides emphasised exchanging of visits of tour operators, media persons related to tourism and opinion makers to promote tourism.