Boracay Island is an island of the Philippines located approximately 315km (200 miles) south of Manila and 2km off the northwest tip of the island of Panay in the Western Visayas region of the Philippines.

In 1990, it was voted by the BMW Tropical Beach Handbook as one of the best beaches in the world and again in 1996 by British publication TV Quick as the world's number one tropical beach.

In 2007, Boracay island topped the list of the World’s Most Popular Beach according to Yahoo! Travel.

The island comprises the barangays of Manoc-Manoc, Balabag, and Yapak (3 of the 17 barangays which make up the municipality of Malay), and is under the administrative control of the Philippine Tourism Authority in coordination with the Provincial Government of Aklan.

Philippine Tourist Destination - Boracay Island - Boracay Island is a favorite destination for foreign and local tourists because of its long fine-grained sugar-white sandy beaches lined with palm trees, crystal-clear blue waters and prestine coral reefs perfect for scuba diving. It is located about 350 kilometers south of Manila, the Philippines capital. It is a small island north of Panay Island which is a part of the Visayas group of islands. Boracay Island is slated to host the 2014 Asian Beach Games.

The Boracay Philippines Paradise - Paradise Island of the South, that’s what people fondly call Boracay. Its pristine white beach matched with crystal clear blue waters makes staying in this heavenly island such a wonderful experience. Dubbed as one of the most beautiful beaches in the world, Boracay doesn’t only boast of its natural beauty but also the beauty of the people native to the island. The Philippines is known to have beautiful beaches packed with beautiful people and Boracay is one genuine example of these beauties mixed altogether.

Boracay Island Ranked 7 in the World's Best Beaches - Myrtle Beach is a city in Horry County, South Carolina, United States. Myrtle Beach is located in a region known as the Grand Strand, an area generally considered to stretch from Calabash, North Carolina in the north to Georgetown, South Carolina in the south. The population of the city was 22,759 at the 2000 census, with the metropolitan population counting in at 196,629. A 2005 estimate combining all three counties (Horry, Georgetown, and Brunswick, North Carolina) made the metro population 377,137, an increase from the 2000 metro population of 346,548.