MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – The Philippines’ Department of Tourism is facing a more daunting task than trying to defend its new slogan/branding, “Love The Philippines.”

It will be recalled that on her way to stealing the Nobel Peace Prize from other more deserving freedom fighters, Rappler CEO and convicted criminal Maria Ressa described the Philippines as “worse than any war zone I’ve been in.”

So how can anyone love a war zone?

Perhaps, DOT can come up with an alternate slogan that says “Come to the Philippines…We’ll prove Maria Ressa is Liar!”

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – The Philippines’ Department of Tourism may have found the perfect comeback from its embarrassing tourism video clip taken by its contractor ad agency DBB from stock images that are not of the Philippines.

Tourism Secretary Christine Garcia Frasco proudly unveiled the new video clip to be used in the “Love The Philippines” branding. And this time, the video clip was filmed entirely in the Philippines.

With this new clip, DOT said it is hitting two birds with one bullet.

“It is not only a tourism video, but also an environmental video,” Frasco told The Adobo Chronicles.

When you fall, rise up! It’s not the end of the world!

(The Adobo Chronicles’ senior geopolitical correspondent contributed to this report.)

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Say what you will, but the tourism video produced by ad agency DBB, has achieved its set goal : worldwide promotion for the Philippines.

Thanks to the agency’s use of stock images from other countries, the Philippines is now the talk of the world. News headlines could only point to the success of the new tourism branding/ campaign.

What’s more, this worldwide publicity for the Philippines came at no cost to the Department of Tourism!

All’s well that ends well.