Jenny's Island Adventure

Tour Guides Surigao Sojourn            Winter, Spring, Summer or Fall , the seasons remind us of our environment, the climate must have mixed up as global temperature continues to increase   weather have changed. it was a sunny morning when I packed up my bags, took the first flight to the Queen City   of the south, it was a bit cold so I had to wear warm clothes, just as we touched down in. Mactan, it was warm and then the hoodie had to be removed out of perspiration.           The next day, it drizzled as we checked in for an early morning flight to the City   of   island Adventures, Surigao. This is my fourth time to visit the city, many times were related to fiesta in the city and the province and a speaking engagement. This   time tho, I had to take a leave, booked a flight and a room at Gateway about five minutes from the airport. The Alliance of Tour Guides of Occidental Negros members Maricar Dabao, Betsy Gazo, Cidni Mapa , Artie Lacson   and me saved for this tr

Tourism means Business The United Nations World Tourism Organization recently reported an increase in international tourists from 25 million in 1950 to 1,186 million in 2015 and a forecast of 1.8 billion for 2030, an increase of 3.3% annually. France , the United States, Spain and China continued to top the ranks in both international arrivals and receipts. Recently, the business of measuring success was the main topic in the recent Tourism Enterprise Forum held in the province of Negros Occidental . Mr. Ramil Basuel of the Department of Tourism, Office of Tourism Planning , Research and   Information Management together with Ms. Reda Astronomia of the Department of Tourism Region 6 were the resource speakers. This was attended by more than fifty owners and managers of tourism enterprises such as facilities and services and attractions in tourism with main participants coming from the accommodation sector such as hotels, pension houses , resorts and other special

San Carlos full of LOVE at 56             There is always a reason to celebrate life when all things are happening the way it is planned. In Negros Occidental, every time I travel across the translink highway from Bacolod via Salvador Benedicto, it is so refreshing to see a panoramic view of the rice terraces tilled and shaped as it is today, a labor of love by farmers up in the mountains.  It only takes two hours or less depending on the speed and the expertise of the driver to reach the 4 th most lovable city in the world-San Carlos. The World Wildlife Fund recently spearheaded this competition where voting was done through social media , among 46 cities in 20 countries worldwide, San Carlos City was top five as a city where one loves to go around, applies the power of nature with the 59-MW solar power plant inaugurated in April this year, where clean living is a way of life having been a Galing Pook and Clean and Green awardee, where one can experience good food

IT   was the first day where change in government in the local and national scene   began, we now   face the challenge of the new administration, this is the   first time that we will have a president from Mindanao, President Rodrigo Roa Duterte, a well-educated man, experienced local government chief executive and represents the masses. It was indeed a very colourful election last summer likened to   a town   fiesta where people are so much involved. This is the day where victors gather to a formal ceremony which marks the beginning of their term as public officials. In the recent Inauguration and Oath taking ceremony held at the Provincial Capitol, Governor Alfredo G. Maranon, Jr. on his third term together with Vice Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson, Provincial Board Members Rommel T. Debulgado, Antonio Encarguez,Sr. , Salvador   Escalante, Jr. , Samson Mirhan, Manuel Frederick Ko, David Lacson, Jose Maria Alonso, Victor Javellana, Alain Gatuslao, Renato Malabor Jr. and Pedro