Manila, Dec. 11 -- The Department of Tourism (DOT) and major malls across the country partnered to attract highly-coveted shoppers from China and other Asian nations with its planned month-long nationwide shopping event in March 2020.
Dubbed "Philippine Fun Sale", DOT Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat said the event would be the first of its kind in the country and is seen to promote the Philippines as an emerging shopping hub in Asia.
"By March we will have the first Philippine Fun Sale, for the first time, all malls will hold a sale at the same time," Romulo-Puyat said at a forum in Malate on Wednesday.
"It will be in Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao to attract tourists to come during March," she added.
At present, the agency is still pol...