by anyajulia | Apr 24, 2009 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita, Tourism
Earning at least P1.3M in the last three months, Danao Extreme, Eco, Educational Adventure Tour (EAT) Danao has surpassed the town’s annual market revenue of last year.
This news was reveled during the League of Municipalities of the Philippines (LMP) meeting when Danao Vice Mayor Jose Cepedoza welcomed the mayors to the Berinja Hall of the newly put up Danao Eco-Park in barangay Magtangtang.
The biggest income earners, the famed Suislide (from coined suicide and slide) and the extreme rappell charges P850 per head has been steadilly going up since both have been set up since December of last year, tourism designate Anna Loinda Saluan revealed.
Promoting the Dagohoy Historical Spot as a major strategy to create conditions of productive and creative enterprise as well as open employment opportunities has transformed a historical spot into a full extreme adventure destination with its own package of tests for the daring tourist. (PIA)
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by anyajulia | Apr 20, 2009 | Headlines, National News, Tourism
Press Secretary Cerge Remonde said that the Tourism Bill 2009 has finally reached the President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s office and she is expected to sign it soon.
Remonde thanks the various stakeholders in the tourism sector particularly taxi-drivers, hotel chambermaids, tourist guides and others for their role in making the Philippines among the preferred tourist destinations in Asia. (OPS)
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by anyajulia | Mar 26, 2009 | Headlines, National News, Tourism
TURISMO ug pagpamuhunan niini ang nakita ni Presidente Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo nga labing maayong industriya samtang nabati na ang recession.
Kini samtang iyang gibatbat ang importansya sa pagpadayag sa destinasyon alang sa mga turista ug ang pagpahimutang sa mga imprastraktura aron mas daghan pang makatrabaho.
Natud niya, daghang trabaho mapasudan sa torismo samtang iyang gipakayab ang panginahanglan sa mga maayong kadalang ug tugpahanan isip mga kritikal nga puhunan sa turismo.
Gipanghambug na sa Presidente ang mga maayong beach resorts sa nasud aron mapakusog ang turismo, santang namatikdang kini usab nakatabang sa dugang pagpangaghat sa mga mamumuhunan dinhi.
Gitukbil usab sa pamuno nasud ang pagdaghan sa mga hotel ug mga puy-anan nga nagpasugod ug tranaho matag buwan.
Matud ni Tourism Secretary Joseph Ace Durano, labing menos sa mga naapektohan sa global economic recession ang turismo sa nasud, (rachiu/PIA)
by anyajulia | Mar 16, 2009 | Headlines, National News, Tourism
With the proposed new tourism bill, local tourism players are expected to benefit much if PGMA will sign it.
In a Tourism Industry-Related Congress held in Davao City, Senator Richard Gordon together with tourism stakeholders tackled the new bill. Which according to him, features the establishment of tourism enterprise zones across the country thus expecting to boost the domestic tourism.
Gordon stressed that it is now the role of the LGUs to be more creative in having better tourism investments and to develop their tourism enterprise zone. (PIA)
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by anyajulia | Feb 25, 2009 | Headlines, Tourism
Department of Tourism (DOT) Secretary Joseph H. Durano has just announced the offering of stimulus tourism packages in the United States to encourage more Americans to visit the Philippines.
The tour package which costs only $999 includes roundtrip international airfare from San Francisco, Los Angeles or Las Vegas via Philippine Airlines, two (2) night hotel accommodation in any of the selected deluxe hotels, daily American breakfast and one-way transfer from the airport to hotel or vice versa. The tour operator consortium is composed of Air Travel Center, GTT International, LBC Travel, Pacific Air Leisure, and Travelfast International. The official ground-handler for this extraordinary tour package is San Francisco-based Rajah Tours International; while the participating hotels are Sofitel Philippine Plaza, Crowne Plaza Galleria, Diamond Hotel, Holiday Inn Galleria and Dusit Thani Hotel. This package is available only up to May 23, 2009.
In addition to the basic package in Metro Manila, extension adventure tours to Palawan, Cebu, Bohol, Boracay and Cagayan de Oro are also offered at affordable costs. (perryscope.org)
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by anyajulia | Feb 3, 2009 | Headlines, Local News / Bohol Balita, Tourism
YOU think the country’s longest and highest zipline is a push-over? Wait until Danao could put up the dreaded canyon swing!
According to a website by Shootover Canyon Swing in Queensland New Zealand, a canyon swing includes jumping off a platform while fitted to a chair or body harness and attached to jump ropes. The configuration is such that your hands and feet are free from entanglements while you do jump combinations. Gravity does the rest.
Danao Mayor Thomas Louis Gonzaga and Vice Mayor Jose Cepedoza have been closely keeping an eye on the local surveying team so they could judiciously decide which platform can deliver the most exhilarating swing of all, says tourism officer Loinda Corotico Saluan.
Danao, a town 72 kilometers away from Tagbilaran, is struggling to beat its own economic problems by pushing for extreme eco-and educational adventure tourism.
Saluan said the canyon swing would be their next aim as she pointed to a long queue of local and foreign tourists nervously fixing their head gears. The headgear is a standard measure before one is allowed to do the strapping of body harnesses in the town’s newly opened “suislide”.
The suislide, Danao’s best extreme adventure experience as of yet is a 550 meters zipline where tourists slide for their life while suspended up in a canyon of about 250 to 300 meters over the gurgling Wahig River and its rocky beds.
But upping the fear scare factor, Danao wants the scariest: canyon swing complete with free-falls, of course following the standards of safety in extreme sports, Saluan said. (rachiu/PIA)
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