Travel & LeisurePhilippines expects basketball World Cup to trigger travel boom
Airlines and other tourism industries vie for demand from 'revenge travelers'
Spain won the 2019 FIBA World Cup in Beijing. The 2023 tournament will be hosted by the Philippines, Indonesia and Japan. © Reuters
YUICHI SHIGA, Nikkei staff writer
August 20, 2023 10:00 JST
MANILA -- Airlines and tourism companies are expanding their services in the Philippines, anticipating a tourism boom in a country that, finally free of some of the world's tightest COVID-related restrictions, is preparing to host the basketball World Cup.