Special report: What to expect under a new NAIA

 Better service, higher costs?

MANILA, Philippines — They say a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. What is this single step then when the task is to rehabilitate a 76-year-old airport known to many as one of the world’s worst gateways?

The Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) over the weekend was turned over to the care of the New NAIA Infrastructure Corp. (NNIC), tasked to do the P170.6-billion, 15-year upgrade of the gateway.

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Thai Airways ranks in top 10 international airlines

Thai Airways International (THAI) is among the top ten best international airlines, according to a survey by Travel + Leisure.

The airline said on Thursday that it was ranked eighth in the best international airlines
category in the survey by the US-based travel magazine.

Airline ratings were based on various criteria including cabin comfort, in-flight services and
customer service.

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Manila was named the fifth riskiest city for tourists

Manila was named the fifth riskiest city for tourists among 60 international cities, according to a new Forbes Advisor report.

“Manila has the highest natural disaster risk, the fifth highest personal security risk, and the seventh highest health security risk,” the report stated.

Caracas, Venezuela has been cited as the riskiest city for tourists, while Singapore is the safest.
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My comment

Manila have it's problems the biggest one is the taxi scammers and other types of scams they have going on there to exploit the tourists. 
Specially the tourists that are there on a first time visit and it is probably there last visit to the Philippines.

Tourists usually choose other countries in the region before Philippines, first of all for it's easier to travel to these countryens since most of them have direct flights something Philippines don't have.
So most of the people that visit Philippines today are there either for they live there or have a partner that live there.

When it comes to the general security risk so is that not worse then in any other big city and if you use common sense.
Don't be loud, and don't walk around drunk, and not draw to much attention to your self and don't make to much problems so will you be safe.

And always read the travel advice before you travel to any country for things can happen 

Barcelona demonstrations against tourists

Barcelona is not the right place to travel to right now since the locals have made it very clear that they don't want to have tourists there. 
They have even come with death treats in some places.

These demonstrations can fast turn violent against the tourists and people can be injured or in worst case killed.
So we will not recommend anyone to travel to Barcelona this year or next year for that matter.

The biggest anti tourist demonstrations have been in the following places and we will advice you all to keep away from these places the next years. 

• Barcelona
• Mallorca
• Balearic Islands
• Andalusia
• Catalonia
• Tenerife

Here are many other places in the world to visit that is not nearly as dangerous as Spain is these days and I think it will be just worse.

The government in Spain have to figure out what they will do here, the best had been to reduce the number of tourists that can visit the the country so the pressure is not so big.

When it come to buying of land or houses there so look to South East Asia there it's forbidden for a non citizen to buy land. So Spain have to look in to forbid non Spanish people to buy property in Spain and the problem are much less.

We will follow this demonstrations and see what they have plans to do in this case.

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