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Jenny's Travel Talk: Sugarlandia Tours : Negros Occidental is no doubt the sweetest province in the country today. This is why even our tourism brand is ‘Negros: Sugar and ...

Negros Occidental is no doubt the sweetest province in the country today. This is why even our tourism brand is ‘Negros: Sugar and More’. Tourist will find themselves visiting museums, ancestral houses and listening to stories of the sugar industry. Recently, it was a challenge for tour operators SN Travel and Tours and YM Travel and Tours with the Alliance of Tour Guides headed by Maricar Dabao together with the Department of Tourism to come up with itineraries for a technical tour for APEC delegates, a tour which is not offered in other places. Considering that guests were APEC delegates, and security was a priority, a half day twin city tour with three main stops was in store for the participants.  A three-minute video was prepared as teaser for the sugarlandia tour that   played on flat screens at the SMX lobby for two days. Two busloads joined the tour composed of delegates, national organizing council, national working team from the Department of Tourism and Departme

It's a sunny day in Bacolod City, as bright as the prospects for investments and a better economy. We welcome the delegates and the organizing committee who has worked hard for the 2015 APEC meetings all over the country and for coming to Bacolod City   and the Province of Negros Occidental. We would also like to welcome back to Bacolod - His Excellency Benigno Aquino III. The week has been a busy one for the city, we have conferences happening in various hotels and the SMX, our restaurants are filled up, there is a noticeable increase in police visibility anywhere you go, a canopy is installed, our men in uniform have been provided brochures and flyers to act as information officers as well.   Many of us have been thinking why this conference is so important for the Philippines. In a series of meetings with the National Organizing Council, with no less than Deputy Director General for Conference   Management Services Ma. Angelina M. Sta. Catalina doing the ro