Booming Bacolod

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Walk around Bacolod or take a joyride on a jeepney, then you will notice that there are new shops, new restaurants opening each week. Even the well-known pastry and souvenir shops did a facelift as well to meet with the demands of the new generation. Most noticeable though is the coffee shop along Lacson Street which is the first in the Philippines and only in Bacolod – Tom N Toms Coffee.
           
Tom N Toms is a professional Korean coffee franchise brand and an international coffee shop which serves specially blended coffee beans from Ethiopia, China and other parts of the globe. They also have smoothies and fresh baked pastries and deli pretzel, plain, special, in cinnamon sugar, Italian pretzel and a deli dog pretzel and many more. Tom N Toms is Korean and has branches in the United States of America, Mongolia, Thailand, China, Singapore and Qatar, Australia and the leading coffee shop industry in South Korea.
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Tom N Toms  store in Bacolod City with a 700 square meter building , can seat 260 people best for small meetings with a high speed internet connection, more than  30,000 Koreans came to Bacolod City  in 2014 making them number one in  foreign tourist arrivals, and more than 300,000 in the whole region 6.

LGSPs Adviser  Rafael L. Coscolluela
                                                 With the booming tourism industry in Bacolod, the Local Government and Support Program for Local Economic Development (LGSP-LED) which started in 2008 is now working on its third batch for  a collaborative program of the Government of the Philippines and Canada, with the purpose to reduce poverty by strengthening local governance and support sustainable local economic development. Former Governor Rafael L. Coscolluela, LGSP LED National Enabling Environment Adviser  met with the stake holders recently for the Bacolod –Talisay-Silay Tourism Circuit Plan Presentation, an output of the many meetings the core group has worked on the past few months. He said that most local government units extensively engage in local economic development plan without national government support, with LGSP- LED LGU’s work towards developing local economic development using resources and seeing profits in each locality. He further mentioned that this is a new wave of governance the perspective is changing and if we do not adopt such perspective we are going to be left behind.
 
Industry players are now challenged to be local entrepreneurial champions with local leaders to have skills on local entrepreneurship, this is the time that we have to have business friendly systems and services with permanent local economic investment officers and set up offices for economic development.

With Bacolod, Silay and Talisay as the beneficiaries of this program, it is noteworthy that each city are different yet they complement with strategies for progress and we can only achieve the goal of increasing tourist arrivals by working as one.








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