Philippines Tourism is “It’s more fun in the Philippines” and you know what? I would have to agree. Despite the fact that he Philippines boasts of beautiful beaches and diving, English-speaking people and cheap shopping it is still the last place most people think to visit in Asia because it lacks infrastructure. Personally, I kind of like that, but visitors are also deterred by communist and Muslim insurgencies and bombings and kidnappings by al-Qaida-linked extremists in the south.