Low-cost travel

TRAVEL. "Low-income and average-income employees are learning more and more about the different places of the country, thanks to the so-called budget airlines. "Thus said one of the founders of the Marginal Travelers Club of Manila. The club was formed only recently.

BACKPACKERS. Our Ear informer said many provincianos who have not been to places they have long wanted to see are now traveling as backpack travelers. "Manila-based wage-earners have already been to many places in the Visayas and Mindanao because of the budget airfares," a member of the club said to our Ear informer.