DOT holds tour package dev't and delivery seminar

"Antique should move from awareness to selling," said Atty. Helen Catalbas, Regional Director of the Department of Tourism  VI.

Atty. Catalbas also said that hopefully by the end of the  seminar-workshop, participants will be able to put together a travel itinerary for Antique that is salable to the market.


Statistics  have shown that Antique is the least visited Province in Western Visayas. The Province tourism industry has been lackluster despite its proximity to world-renowned Boracay and Iloilo City. 

In line with this thrust, DOT VI with DOT Office of Tourism Standards and Regulations and  held a two-day tour package development and delivery seminar-workshop on January 28-29, 2014.

Mr. Bien Claravall, a  noted professor from the University of the Philippines Diliman Asian Institute of Tourism and writer of tourism textbook Travel and Tour Operations in the Philippines was the resource speaker.

The seminar-workshop was attended by tourism front liners from the local government units and private sector tourism from all over the Province.

Event was held in Adelaide Tourist and Travellers Inn, a DOT-Accredited establishment in the capital town of San Jose de Buenavista .

Poverty reduction team meet for 2015 grassroot budgeting

 

The San Jose de Buenavista Municipal Poverty Reduction Action Team (MPRAT) held a workshop on January 22, 2014 at Adelaide Tourist and Travellers Inn to agree on indicators to address for poverty reduction and ultimately decide what projects will be requested for funding from the national government and projects to be funded by the local government unit for 2015.

Bulilit Activity Camp inaugurated in Bgy. Madrangca

Bulilit Activity Camp, an early childhood development education center was inaugurated on January 23, 2014.

The Camp is located within the premises of Canuto Pefianco Elementary School in Brgy. Madrangca.