DOLE mandates hotels, restaurants: Give service charges to workers in full

Futch Anthony Inso 02/04/2024

CEBU CITY, Philippines – The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has mandated that hotels, restaurants, and similar businesses must give their employees the full amount of collected service charges. Labor Secretary Bienvenido Laguesma signed February 1,…

Chroma Hospitality Inc. introduces Culture of Clean guidelines for intensified cleaning standards across Crimson and Quest hotels

PR 05/26/2020

The guidelines have been implemented to ensure guest safety as it prepares to welcome back guests.  Manila, 11 May 2020 – Chroma Hospitality Inc., the management company of Crimson Hotels and Resorts and Quest Hotels and Resorts…

Hospitality and travel stakeholders take on Domestic Travel Sentiment Survey 

PR 05/12/2020

In the wake of the corona virus pandemic, the travel industry has come to a halt. Many countries are on lockdown, airlines have suspended flights and services, and most hotel properties have sadly but responsibly taken the…

Investor’s thrust: Projects in Cebu’s hospitality sector

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 08/31/2018

Homegrown developer, Duros Land, rides tourism wave: Breaks ground for Minore Center and Hotel project Responding to the growing tourism market in Cebu, more developers are pouring investments into hospitality-related structures. The latest homegrown developer to ride…

Hospitality industry bracing for ‘tourist surge’ this year

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 02/26/2018

MCIA NEW TERMINAL set TO OPEN Prospects are high for the hospitality industry this year especially with the opening of the new terminal of the Mactan Cebu International Airport (MCIA). This is why the Hotel, Resort, Restaurant…

Visiting Malaysian table paddlers enjoy Cebuano hospitality, food

James Nicole Franz R. Savellon 12/09/2017

DESPITE finishing runners up in the table tennis competition of the Asia Pacific University Games (APUG), members of the Universiti of Teknologi – Mara (UiTM) still enjoyed their brief stint in the queen City of the South.…

Cebu, Singapore ink MOU on tourism program

Morexette Marie B. Erram 09/28/2017

THE provincial government of Cebu, Department of Tourism (DOT) and several academic institutions in Singapore have inked a memorandum of understanding on tourism and hospitality development program on Thursday, September 28 at the Cebu Provincial Capitol. The…

A humble Quest to serve

Caryll Arcayan 04/18/2017

Quest Hotel and Conference Center Cebu General Manager Mia Singson-Leon sets her heart to lead an international business hotel brand that stands for the happiness of its people. Having worked abroad as Executive Director in the hospitality…

‘Impeccable hospitality’

Victor Anthony V. Silva 04/07/2017

Meetings related to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) Summit recently held in Cebu may not have been as long or as huge as past activities of its kind, but local stakeholders nonetheless cited gains from…

Developer eyes tourists market for 23-storey hotel

Dominic D. Yasay 12/18/2016

A LOCAL hotel developer is looking at getting a bigger share of tourists in Cebu and is trying to make Mandaue City the next central business district in Metro Cebu with its latest 23-storey hotel project called…

‘APEC committee, hotels need to work out rates’

Doris C. Bongcac, Victor Anthony V. Silva 08/09/2015

The national organizing committee of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) should sit down with Cebu hotel managers to resolve the issue of expensive  room rates. “I think the organizing committee has to coordinate with hotels na…

Hospitality sector Malaysian hotels eye Cebu students

Aileen Garcia-Yap 07/14/2014

With Asean integration happening next year, Malaysian hoteliers are keen on tapping Cebu’s manpower pool in the hospitality sector by offering schools here  with a four to six month on-the-job (OJT) program in Malaysia for students. Representatives…

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