Amazing Archipelago - Best Philippine Travel Guide - General Santos City (Dadiangas)

Amazing Archipelago is a travel guide by John-Eric Taburada published in 2010. It's not just an ordinary travel guide that describes about the country's geographical areas, interesting tourist destinations and to do things, but it also coaches about culture recognition, awareness of rarely told Filipino traits, and Filipino sociology at a glance.

Rationale:

Foreigners, especially the would-be visitors, are hesitant to visit the Philippines because of recent travel advisories against the Philippines. Many Filipinos are ignorant about the presence of visiting expatriates for fear of a possible exploitation and colonization. A tug of war of hesitance walls the opportunities both foreigners and locals in realizing the beauty of the country.

The wrongful impressions about the Philippines is deemed a significant factor in its continuous economic slump, which results to a tarnished image.

The book exposes the bizarre Filipino attitudes and rarely heard negative traits that's been given lots of misconceptions, strangely coinciding with the nation's economic struggle.

Objective:

The book aims to help achieve awareness and involvement of Filipinos and encourage mass tourism or business investments by foreigners so that economic stability of the nation may be achieved and maintained.

The unbiased information that the book has shared have been criticized by some Filipinos to avoid humiliation, but in contrary, the negative publicity plays a huge role in order for the foreigners to heartily understand what Filipinos really are. And as anticipated, most foreigners who were already familiar with Filipinos and its diversities considered the nation as their second home.

Available at:

Crown Bookstore chain in South Cotabato and General Santos City.