Tourism Secretary Maria Christina Frasco said that, by next year, the agency will train some 100,000 workers bound to work abroad in hotels, restaurants, hospitals, and homecare.

"The Department's frontline training target for next year is 100,000 Filipino tourism workers harnessing the seven values of Filipino hospitality… To continue to train our people to be purveyors of happiness and, more importantly, purveyors of hope… And build upon all of that a sense of community, a sense of the bayanihan spirit," said Frasco in a speech at the recently concluded 22nd World Travel and Tourism Council Global Summit in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

"The DoT aims to purvey the Filipino brand of service excellence to its frontline tourism workers, recognizing it as a core pillar of the tourism industry… to help the industry workforce become beacons of hospitality… ready and willing to receive tourists from all over the world," she said.

"Wherever you may find yourself in the world, whether in a hotel, a restaurant, a hospital, a home, and in many other industries, you will find a Filipino with a warm smile and the distinct (trait) of hospitality that is ready and willing to go the extra mile to make our guests feel happy, at home. And therefore, we recognize the strength of the Filipino brand of service excellence as one of the core pillars of the tourism industry in the Philippines," Frasco added.

In her remarks, Frasco discussed the coordination of the 16 regions in the country to ensure that more tourist workers received the excellent training available.

She also covered the topics of ecotourism, the inclusion of green practices in updated accreditation standards, labor standards for Filipino tourism workers, and sustainable tourism as cornerstones of Philippine tourism development.