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Philippines extends win streak at world travel awards with top Asia honours

The honours include a leading beach destination in Asia nod for the eighth time and a seventh consecutive win as the region’s top diving spot

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The pristine sands of White Beach, which forms one of the main stretches of coastline on Boracay Island. Boracay was named Asia’s Leading Luxury Island Destination at the 2025 World Travel Awards. Photo: Department of Tourism – Philippines
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The Philippines, with a coastline stretching more than 36,000km (22,400 miles), cemented its reputation for beach holidays in Asia after being named – once again – as the best beach, dive and island destination in the 2025 World Travel Awards gala ceremony on Monday.

This year’s Asia’s Leading Beach Destination award was the country’s eighth, ABS-CBN reported. The Philippines also scored its seventh consecutive recognition as Asia’s Leading Dive Destination and back-to-back victory as Asia’s Leading Island Destination.

Its Department of Tourism was named Asia’s Leading Tourist Board, while Boracay was Asia’s Leading Luxury Island Destination and Clark Freeport Zone took Asia’s Leading Meetings and Conference Destination award.

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Vietnam was another big winner, taking the Asia’s Leading Destination award as well as Asia’s Leading City Destination award for Hanoi and Asia’s Leading Regional Cultural Destination award for the Dong Van Karst Plateau Unesco Global Geopark.
A foreign tourist walks on a street in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Monday. Hanoi won the Asia’s Leading City Destination award at the 2025 World Travel Awards. Photo: EPA
A foreign tourist walks on a street in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Monday. Hanoi won the Asia’s Leading City Destination award at the 2025 World Travel Awards. Photo: EPA

Bali was voted Asia’s Leading Wedding Destination, while immersive art museum TeamLab Planets Tokyo claimed the title for Asia’s Leading Tourist Attraction.

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The World Travel Awards, established in 1993, is regarded as the industry’s ultimate hallmark of quality, according to the Philippine Information Agency.

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