Enough rooms for pageant visitors — Lapu-Lapu official

Victor Anthony V. Silva 12/13/2016

  AS Lapu-Lapu City hosts the Miss Universe swimsuit competition on January 17 next year, a local tourism official assured that they would have enough rooms to accommodate the influx of visitors then. Hembler Mendoza, the city’s…

Plantation Bay resort to open shopping strip this year

Aileen Garcia-Yap 08/25/2016

THE Plantation Bay Resort and Spa in Mactan will open a shopping strip within their property this year. Resort manager Efren Belarmino said they noticed a lot of their guests really look for a place to buy…

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…

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…

Captivating Camotes

Izobelle T. Pulgo 04/30/2016

IT WAS an emotional experience for some. Others thought of it as the perfect time for family bonding. A couple appreciated the relaxed pace of the tour. And there are many who were in it for pure…

More hotels, restaurants join ‘halal’ certification project

Vanessa Claire Lucero 03/03/2016

Three more resorts in Bohol and some restaurants in Cebu have joined the pilot  implementation of a government project that aims to help tourism establishments secure halal certification. Halal refers to food allowed under the Islamic Sharia…

Tour packages prepared for Sinulog, IEC tourists

Vanessa Claire Lucero 01/14/2016

More than 30 tour operators have been accredited to offer tour packages to visitors expected to arrive for the Sinulog Festival and the International Eucharistic Congress (IEC). Rowena Lu Y. Montecillo, Department of Tourism (DOT) regional director,…

Sinulog parades to take over Osmeña Boulevard

Jhunnex Napallacan, Mary Claire U. Catado 01/06/2016

SINULOG festival organizers are expecting a bigger crowd of spectators, but fewer contingents in the street dancing competitions this year. Osmeña Boulevard  will be the main route of religious processions and  parades that start on Thursday, Jan.…

US issues travel alert

11/25/2015

Washington – The United States issued a worldwide travel alert on Monday warning American citizens of “increased terrorist threats” in the wake of the Paris attacks. Belgium’s prime minister announced on the same day that Brussels will…

Relax hotel rate hikes

Marites Villamor Ilano, Vanessa Lucero, Victor Anthony V. Silva 08/11/2015

Cebu gov’t, chamber leaders appeal for restraint in APEC season Cebu city and province top officials yesterday added their voices to an appeal for hotels to “temper” a rate increase for accommodations timed for APEC meetings in…

Hotel cartel?

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 08/10/2015

Were it not for the fact that she is a practitioner of diplomacy, I think Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Undersecretary Laura del Rosario would have dressed down operators of local high-end hotels for jacking up their…

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