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World Tourism Celebration

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The month of September is indeed filled with so many activities from the Maritime Week, Cancer Prevention Month, National Statistics Month, 113 th Civil Service Anniversary, Provincial Tourism Week, Micro Small and Medium Enterprise Summit and of course World Tourism Day on the 27 th of September with the theme: One Billion Tourists, One Billion Opportunities which relates all the events for the month to tourism development and promotion of our province Negros Occidental. Recently, the Provincial Tourism Week was held in various malls with school based competitions and activities. Marie Arriane Diolingo of Philippine Normal University of Cadiz City and Micca Mae Natabio of Cadiz City SPED High School both won first place in the Tour Guiding Competition . PO1 JR P. Grande of Sagay City won First Place in the Tourist Police Tour Guiding Competition as well as   Rei Cesar Eson of Old Sagay Elementary School won First Place in the   Tour Guiding Elementary Level. In t...

Promoting Negros Tourism

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September is indeed TOURISM MONTH, this is the time when there are a lot of events happening in the tourism industry which started with the Philippine Tourism Promotions Board, Travel Exchange, MICE Conference, the country’s biggest travel exhibition the Philippine Travel Mart , the 3 rd Philippine Tourism Forum and the Tourism Week celebration which will be highlighted on the 27th of September as World Tourism Day with the theme ‘One Billion Tourists: One Billion Opportunities’. The 3 rd Philippine Tourism Forum was a gathering of tourism stakeholders in the industry themed Business of Tourism ASEAN and Beyond. This was a rare occasion where five tourism secretaries attended, which was the very reason why I attended the one day affair . This event   was a powerhouse of speakers with no less than Architect Felino Palafox Jr. who talked about ‘The Rise of Tourism Cities and Urban Planning’, Mr. Jay Yuvallos   -Widening Tourism Research Through ASEAN and As...