DOT pushes for Cebu’s health and wellness tourism

Dominic D. Yasay 08/26/2016

An executive of the Department of Tourism in Central Visayas (DOT-7) said they are pushing forward with efforts to put Cebu in the global map as a top health and wellness destination. In an interview on Friday, DOT-7 supervising…

Cebu’s private sector is factor in tourism growth

Victor Anthony V. Silva 08/23/2016

CV tourist arrivals up 3.83 percent in five months of 2016; Cebu’s arrivals also grow by 3.37 percent Cebu’s strong private sector, which is ready to offer new and different tour packages, is one of the reasons…

A tempered Sinulog celebration

Stephen D. Capillas 08/11/2016

I don’t know if it was this year or last year when a female netizen, a Balikbayan I think, posted a complaint on her Facebook page about the traffic congestion caused by one of the Sinulog events,…

NO MORE SINULOG SA KABATAAN

Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Nestle L. Semilla, Rosemarie H. Borromeo, Victor Anthony V. Silva 08/04/2016

The Sinulog Festival in January next year will not be the same. No more youth dance parade and contest to open the festivity. No more fireworks display to cap the weeklong festival. The culminating day’s grand parade…

P1.8B roads to tourism sites in Central Visayas to open this year

Victor Anthony V. Silva 08/02/2016

Tourists can expect better access to tourism sites in Central Visayas with several improvements on roads leading to these areas that are lined up or due for completion within the year. The projects, totaling P1.8 billion, were…

Gov vows to turn airstrips in north Cebu into airports

Victor Anthony V. Silva 07/31/2016

Business summit held; mayor urges Bantayan Is. towns to help grow each other’s economies If plans will push through, Bantayan Island and Camotes Islands will soon have separate airports. Cebu Gov. Hilario Davide III said he had…

Condotel units to add more rooms for tourists

Victor Anthony V. Silva 07/21/2016

Cebu will have at least 300 more rooms for tourists when the condominium project in Mactan will be completed in the next few years. These developed with the interest of most owners of the nearly 500 condominium…

Cebu’s Chinese visitors up 100%, says DOT

Victor Anthony V. Silva 07/19/2016

Jan. 2016-April 2016 report shows Koreans still Cebu’s top market Visitors from China registered the highest growth rate among the five top foreign visitors in Cebu in the first four months of the year. According to the…

Tourism chief seeks bigger MICE market share for PH

Victor Anthony V. Silva 07/17/2016

DOT Secretary Teo outlines department’s short-term, long-term thrusts The tourism department is looking forward for the Philippines especially Cebu and the Visayas to have a bigger slice of the international events in the meetings, incentives, conferences exhibitions…

New Zealand eyeing Cebu’s education, tourism sectors

Victor Anthony V. Silva 07/17/2016

THE New Zealand government has decided to pay closer attention to Cebu on its 50th year of bilateral relations with the Philippines, particularly eyeing the local market for the education and tourism sectors. New Zealand Ambassador David…

8 Cebu LGUs get new Suroy-Suroy buses

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 07/15/2016

The Cebu Provincial government yesterday turned over eight brand new coasters to the local government units (LGUs). Although similar to the Suroy-Suroy Sugbo buses previously given to some LGUs, yesterday’s batch of coasters looked different. It is…

Nine guides, operators, motorcycle drivers tested positive for drug use

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 07/12/2016

At least nine tour guides, operators and habal-habal drivers in the southern town of Badian have tested positive for illegal drugs use according to the Cebu Provincial Anti-Drug Abuse Office (CPADAO). Carmen Remedios Durano-Meca, CPADAO head, said…

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