Is the Secretary of the Department of Tourism planning to run for a major political position come 2010? I wondered about this after checking out the web site Awesome Philippines.
I first learned about Awesome Philippines through a blog post by Tech Pinas. Tech Pinas described Awesome Philippines as the new promo website of the Department of Tourism but after checking out the images in the google ads and the Awesome Philippines banner, I have come to conclude that Awesome Philippines is Ace Durano’s website.
Check these out:
Google ad promoting Awesome Philippines
When somebody is making extra effort to get noticed particularly in a time near the elections, I can’t help but think that person is planning to run for a major political position.
So, am I right in saying that the website is promoting Ace Durano and not really the Philippines?
I just wonder though why the footer of the Awesome Philippines site has this: “Copyright 2009 by Philippine Department of Tourism. All rights reserved.” Did the DOT pay for this site? Why make another website when we already have the tourism.gov.ph WOW Philippines site?
looks like there’s something fishy. the original deadline for this contest to end was today april 13th… suddenly, we noticed just moments before that they had changed it & now the promo ends may 24th.
i should have known better. =(