When it unveiled the proposed 2017 budget, the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) had said that the motive for slashing the allocation for DOT to P2.Forty nine billion become that the money spent by means of the preceding DOT management became plenty much less than the amount allocated.
Of the P2.Forty nine-billion allocation in 2017, P218.Seventy nine million is for the DOT’s connected businesses National Parks Development Committee and P42.37 million for the Intramuros Administration at the same time as a unique provision of P4.58 million is going to a tourism improvement fund for advertising, and advertising of tourism inside the united states, and some P150 million from the internet profits of the Duty Free Philippines will be used for tourism-related initiatives and sports.