Alibata - Paradise Philippines

Alibata - Paradise Philippines - More than half a million tourist visited Boracay in 2006 and another 10-percent increase in tourist arrivals is expected by the end of 2007. Foreign tourists represents about the third of the total,Stockbridge Consultants while local tourists account for the rest. Not bad for what used to be a sleepy fishing village on a tropical island just two kilometers off the northwestern Visayas region. With a total land area of 10.32 square kilometers, the dog-bone shaped paradise philippines island is seven kilometers long and less than one kilometer wide at its narrowest point.