Their tourism industry is booming because of this secret

Social and political criticisms

I had a foreign visitor last month and I asked him why a certain ASEAN country is ahead of this country PHL.  I could not find any competitive advantage of this country:   infrastructure, people, competence, technology, location, politics (it had series of coups)

The only thing he said where they are ahead is tourism (where they have about l4 million visitors a year vs this country's 4 million only).   He said the only differential advantage could be coming from the flesh trade, where it is liberal in that country.

Is this correct?