Amid a growing tourism market, the opening of new domestic and international flight routes serviced from Cebu will help address the need for greater connectivity between destinations in the country. Catalino Chan III, regional director of the…
DOT chief urges stakeholders to build more hotels and resorts There is a need to build more hotels and resorts in the country especially since more tourists are expected to visit the Philippines in 2017. Tourism Secretary…
To be featured during the Miss Universe pageant next year would have brought a huge impact on the tourism industry in Oslob, southern Cebu, but recent developments have made that a less likely prospect. Oslob Mayor Jun…
Whale shark watching in Oslob town in southern Cebu may not be included in the final show of the Miss Universe pageant, which will involve 90 candidates. Tourism Undersecretary Katherine de Castro said that they are considering…
THE fact that Miss Universe organizers pushed through with its activities in southern Cebu despite a travel advisory issued last month shows how safe the area really is, a tourism official said. “US advisory or no advisory,…
THE New Central Visayas Tourism chief accepted his new post because it was an opportunity to serve the place where his mother came from. Catalino Chan III, new Department of Tourism in Central Visayas director, cited this…
CONSUMER spending in the coming holiday season this December is expected to boost demand for gifts, decor and houseware (GDH). Venus Genson, president of the GDH sector in Cebu, said this demand would be further bolstered by…
The Department of Tourism in Central Visayas (DOT-7) finally has a new regional director. Catalino Chan, who was the Tourism director of Northern Mindanao (Region 10), was sworn in as the new DOT-7 director by Tourism Secretary…
Orange-colored lights bathed the Provincial Capitol building and grounds to mark the launching of the Cebu leg of the 18-day Campaign to End Violence Against Women (VAW) last Friday evening. The nationwide campaign is spearheaded by the…
Was thinking about writing a piece on the “Letter to the Readers” made by the New York Times in which it admitted its shortcomings in its coverage of this year’s US elections and how this letter was…
To remain globally competitive amid a fast-growing international tourism industry, resources should all the more be put where they are needed. Judy Gabato, Department of Tourism Central Visayas (DOT-7) officer-in-charge, said investments should be poured into infrastructure…
The recent US advisory warning American citizens not to travel to southern Cebu, coupled with the US government’s recent cancellation of its firearms sales to the Philippines, may have been the result of the fallout in US-PH…
