Despite the Quirino Grandstand hostage taking where several Chinese nationals were killed on August 2010, Chinese tourists continue to visit the country, an ambassador said.
Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines Liu Jianchao said there has been an increase of about 19 percent in the number of Chinese tourists visiting the Philippines.
Liu told reporters in a roundtable discussion that the embassy recorded some 70,000 Chinese tourists in the Philippines for 2011 alone.
On August 23, 2010, disgruntled policeman Rolando Mendoza held hostage several tourists while in a bus in Quirino grandstand as he demanded to be re-employed in the police service.
Negotiations bogged down and the 12-hour hostage ended with nine people, all foreigners, dead.
President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III has since ordered several government officials charged administratively for “incompetence and neglect of duty.”
Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines Liu Jianchao said there has been an increase of about 19 percent in the number of Chinese tourists visiting the Philippines.
Liu told reporters in a roundtable discussion that the embassy recorded some 70,000 Chinese tourists in the Philippines for 2011 alone.
On August 23, 2010, disgruntled policeman Rolando Mendoza held hostage several tourists while in a bus in Quirino grandstand as he demanded to be re-employed in the police service.
Negotiations bogged down and the 12-hour hostage ended with nine people, all foreigners, dead.
President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III has since ordered several government officials charged administratively for “incompetence and neglect of duty.”
