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| ==Despite heavy rain, Cebu dancing inmates go 'Gangnam Style'==
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| *Source:http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/276204/showbiz/despite-heavy-rain-cebu-dancing-inmates-go-gangnam-style
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| *Sunday, September 30, 2012 10:21am
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| Amid a downpour, the world-famous Cebu dancing inmates on Saturday drew cheers as they danced to the monster worldwide hit "Gangnam Style."
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| The rain did not appear to affect the enthusiasm of the inmates, whose latest feat was posted on YouTube Saturday night.
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| "Despite the heavy rain (September 29), at least a thousand inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center entertained guests with their ecstatic adoption of the Guinness World Record holder for the 'Most Liked in YouTube,'" read the description on the video, which lasted nearly four minutes.
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| Most of the inmates in the video wore their standard orange suits, but some at the center of the dance wore black shirts. The lead dancer was in black.
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| A separate report on Bombo Radyo said more than 1,000 people witnessed and cheered the inmates, who also danced to other hits like "We Are the Champion," "Do the Hustle," "Jump," "Fire," "Ben," "Billy Jean" and "This Is It" before making "Gangnam Style" their finale.
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| The Bombo Radyo report also said foreigners such as Rudy Freemont went to watch the inmates, who he said he first saw on YouTube.
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| Saturday's dance highlighted the comeback of the inmates after Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia suspended the dances due to a near-riot at the rehabilitation center last February.
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| Last Tuesday (Manila time), "Gangnam Style" overtook "Call Me Maybe" as the most watched video on YouTube.
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| The hit single by Korean superstar PSY had been perceived by many as poking fun at the lavish lifestyle in South Korea's Gangnamn district.
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| It has also generated several spoofs.
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| == Cebu province school board okays release of P42-M budget ==
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| *Source:http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=&nid=2&rid=458397
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| *Saturday, September 29, 2012
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| CEBU CITY, Sept. 29 (PNA) -- The Cebu Provincial School Board (PSB) has approved the release of P42.11 million for the Capitol’s various education programs and projects.
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| The biggest chunk of the amount will go to the construction of school buildings in 15 cities and municipalities in the province.
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| Among the programs and projects included in the fund allocations are funding for athletes to be sent to the Central Visayas Regional Athletic Association meet in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental and the provincial sports meet in Balamban town.
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| There will also be funds for the increase of scholars under Cebu Tertiary Education Assistance Program, distribution of armchairs in schools and accommodation of additional PSB-paid teachers.
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| Department of Education Cebu Province Division Superintendent Arden Monisit said he is grateful to the school board, chaired by Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia, for approving the budget, which include the hiring of 20 additional PSB-paid teachers and the construction of additional classrooms.
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| Co-financed by the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc.(Rafi), Capitol will build 15 school buildings, a two-story six-classroom building in the cities of Carcar, Toledo and Talisay and in 12 municipalities in the province.
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| According to the proposed agreement, which is up for signature between the concerned parties, the school board will allocate P31.5 million, while Rafi will shell out P46.5 million for the P78-million school building project.
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| A Rafi representative reported 10 Gabaldon buildings in six Cebu towns that are set for rehabilitation. A total cost of P17.15 million is earmarked for the rehabilitation.
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| Gabaldon building is named after former Nueva Ecija Assemblyman Isauro Gabaldon who in the 1907 Philippine Assembly authored a law allocating funds for the construction of uniform-designed school buildings all over the country. Some of these buildings still exist.
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| For its rehabilitation, both the school board and Rafi will allocate P6.86 million for all the 10 buildings, while the local government units (LGUs), where these Gabaldon buildings are located, will have to contribute for the remaining P3.430 million, based on the letter of Rafi chief operating officer Dominca Chua to Garcia.
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| ==Gov: Heritage, culture to boost Cebu tourism==
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| *Source:http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/278756/gov-heritage-culture-to-boost-cebu-tourism
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| *Friday, September 28, 2012 6:31 am
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| :Joy C. Quito (Contributor,Cebu Daily News)
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| Heritage and culture will establish the uniqueness of Cebu and not just its beaches and night spots.
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| Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Gacia gave this statement as she pushed for giving the towns more opportunities to showcase their tourism attractions.
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| “We must give our towns the opportunities to be noticed, to be showcased, and to blossom,” Garcia told the Metro Cebu Development and Coordinating Board in its 3rd quarter meeting on Wednesday.
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| “There are new products because our towns now know what are their natural sites, heritage, and cultural attractions,” said Garcia.
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| She was responding to the presentation of the National Tourism Development Plan or Road Map presented by Cebu Business Club executive director Fernando “Perry” Fajardo during the meeting.
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| She said that the provincial government succeeded in bringing tourism promotion outside Metro Cebu to the countryside.
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| “If we are to do a tourism roadmap, let us first find out what has already been done,” said Garcia.
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| Fajardo said the tourism roadmap includes Cebu within Central Visayas as one of the priority areas in the country .
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| Fajardo said Cebu’s disadvantages include having no unique culture, an unattractive physical environment, and no integrated planning and proper disposal of garbage.
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| Fajardo said the strategies to address this weaknesses in the road map include product development, infrastructure development, marketing promotion, public involvement and organization development.
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| Governor Garcia said the provincial government was already doing the strategies recommended in the roadmap.She the province has already clustered 80 percent of Cebu tourism areas and its products.
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| The southern cluster with 22 local government units focuses on heritage sites. The mid-western cluster with 7 mucipalities, offer adventure areas and the northern cluster with 90 towns offers heritage, culture and adventure to tourists.
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| ==RDC-7 Identifies Cebu Bridge Construction Projects For Spanish Funding==
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| *Source:http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/375051/rdc7-identifies-cebu-bridge-construction-projects-for-spanish-funding
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| *Thursday, September 27, 2012, 5:36pm
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| :By MARS W. MOSQUEDA JR.
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| CEBU — The Regional Development Council (RDC) 7 has identified six bridges in the province of Cebu for inclusion in the Department of Public Works and Highways’ Spanish-assisted bridge construction and replacement project.
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| These are the Matab-ang Bridge I and II; Suba Bridge and Talavera Bridge, all in Toledo City; and the Sumaguan and Dugo-an bridges in Argao town.
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| The DPWH 7 earlier identified these bridges having deteriorating structural integrity. This means that the bridges may no longer be safe to vehicular traffic.
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| The DPWH 7 recommended to its central office replacing the bridges by including them in said Spanish-assisted project so as to ensure safe mobility of people, goods and services to and from the western and southern parts of Cebu province and to also expand economic activities in those areas.
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| The Cebu Provincial Development Council Executive Committee in its meeting last July 16 endorsed the said bridges for inclusion in the program.
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| Last September 7, the RDC Infrastructure Development Committee recommended the endorsement of the project and RDC-7 in its full council meeting to be held in Dumaguete City is expected to formally endorse the building of the bridges under aforesaid DPWH Spanish-Assisted Bridge Construction/Replacement Project.
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| ==Cebu Inmates’ Performance Allowed Again==
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| *Source:http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/374908/cebu-inmates-performance-allowed-again
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| *Wednesday, September 26, 2012, 6:16pm
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| :By MARS W. MOSQUEDA JR.
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| CEBU CITY, Cebu – The world-famous dancing inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) are getting their grooves back after Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia allowed them to perform again.
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| The dancing inmates’ monthly performance was suspended since March following a near-riot that occurred while the prisoners were rehearsing.
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| This Saturday, the inmates will do their version of the hottest Korean dance craze “Oppa Gangnam Style,” for public viewing.
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| Garcia’s decision to restore the dancing routine of the inmates was made on recommendation by Atty. Jose Ma. Gastardo, the capitol consultant on planning and development and jail matters.
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| Gastardo said the Garcia advised him and CPDRC management about it and if they could prepare a new dance presentation. The choreographer, Vince Rosales complied and came up with a new dance routine.
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| ==Cebu traders urged to explore food exports==
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| *Source:http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/277088/cebu-traders-urged-to-explore-food-exports
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| *Tuesday, September 25, 2012 9:44 am
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| :By Aileen Garcia-Yap (Cebu Daily News)
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| Local exporters are encouraged to consider exporting more food and food ingredients.
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| Fred Escalona, Philexport Cebu executive director, gave this advice after a report from Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) showed a further slow down of the export performance of the electronics sector.
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| The report said the July book-to-bill ratio of the electronics exports slipped from 1.2 percent in March to 0.87 percent. This figure represents the ratio between the value of orders for export goods and the value of previous deliveries.
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| Escalona said while other export sectors were still struggling to recover, global demand for the food and food ingredients sector continued to be strong.
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| He proposed that exporters look into developing the coconut as a food ingredient for export.
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| He said Philexport was studying how to develop this potental after the organization received fund assistance recently from the Dutch government.
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| “From coconut you can already get four food ingredients like Virgin Coconut Oil, sugar, flour and coconut water that we can export. And we have a lot of coconuts here,” Escalona said.
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| He said coconut water was already a popular food product with global demand growing.
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| Coconut water falls under the naturally healthy category, which accounted for almost 40 percent of total global health and wellness sales of US$223 billion in 2009.
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| For Virgin Coconut Oil, Escalona said global market analysts were seeing more growth in demand for the tropical juice drink especially in Brazil and other tropical countries like Ecuador, Indonesia, India and Malaysia where the drink was considered a local beverage.
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| He said that the gifts, toys, and houseware sector was also a promising sector compared to the furniture sector.
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| “All these sectors are affected by consumer spending which at present is also affected by the economic turmoil in our two major markets,” he said.
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| “What we would suggest is to tap new markets like India and study the market with regards to what products are much in demand there,” Escalona said.
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| In the first quarter this year, the value of coconut water exports rose by 260.55 percent to $1.32 million, said Euclides Forbes of the Philippine Coconut Authority.
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| Forbes said the Philippines sold 4.49 million liters of coco water in the first quarter which was a 300-percent jump from the 1.12-million liters sold in the same period last year.
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| The United States, which was the main market for the coco water, bought 3.72 million liters in the first three months of the year.
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| Escalona said Cebu exporters should now start looking at these new opportunities while looking at new markets to trade with.
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| ==Cebu to benefit from PRA promotional activities==
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| *Source:http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=852274
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| *Monday, September 24, 2012 12:00 AM
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| :By Ehda M. Dagooc (The Freeman)
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| CEBU, Philippines - Cebu’s potential as a retirement haven gets added boost as the Philippine Retirement Authority (PRA) bares plan to aggressively promote the country as a retirement destination abroad.
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| Department of Trade and Industry (DTI-Cebu) provincial director Nelia Navarro said that Cebu will maximize its potential to attract thousands of retirees looking for alternative vacation homes outside of their countries, if investors will start to build facilities that will accommodate this multi-million-dollar market.
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| Recently, Philippine Retirement Authority (PRA) general manager Veredigno Atienza said that the government will aggressively promote the country as a retirement destination for the world’s retirees.
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| Atienza said that the agency must do more roadshows and conferences which are rifled at distinct focused audiences.
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| PRA, is now focusing on the country’s leading source countries such as China, South Korea, and Japan.
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| “PRA is leveraging developments in age-friendliness, tourism, healthcare and Department of Tourism’s ‘Its more fun in the Philippines’ campaign to boost the Philippine position further in the international retirement rankings,” Atienza said.
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| The PRA general manager added that the best way to get reputable international publicity is to secure good graces of respected international magazine.
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| He said the Philippines needs to compete with global competitors which are offering more aggressive retirement programs.
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| Because of this, PRA is expected to launch more product innovations designed to lure more retirees to the country.
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| He said the Philippines hopes to attract one to ten million foreign retirees in the next six years.
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| Meanwhile, in Cebu, Navarro said the province still has to provide the right facilities to host the growing retiree market, who already expressed interest to prefer Cebu as their retirement destination.
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| At present though, while Cebu is still attracting capitalists to invest on building integrated retirement villages or facilities, Cebu is slowly positioning at a “Light Medical Tourism Destination.”
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| Navarro hopes that the earlier annoucement of businessman Justin Uy to develop a 10-hectare Retirement Village in Consolacion will soon be realized.
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| For the meantime, while the plan is still raw, Cebu will have to maximize its strength in the huge medical tourism market, which is to focus on providing services for the active retirees, who may not necessarily live in Cebu yet, but experience the place for vacation, leisure and some of their medical needs.
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| ==Cebu should be ready before we market it—DOT 7 chief==
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| *Source:http://www.cdn.ph/news_details.php?id=14847
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| *Sunday, September 23, 2012
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| :By Aileen Garcia-Yap (Reporter)
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| “WE have to make sure that our product is ready before we tap other markets."
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| Director Rowena Montecillo of the Department of Tourism in Central Visayas gave this advice to the Coalition of Fourteen Business Chambers and CSOs (civil society organizations) on the coalition's suggestion to push for better infrastructure.
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| The coalition presented last Friday its draft Cebu Tourism Roadmap.
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| It recommended going beyond traditional markets of South Korea and Japan tourists who make up the top two foreign tourist groups and to start promoting Cebu in China, India and developed countries in the west like the US and European countries whose travellers spend more days and time when the come.
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| "I agree that most of them are long-staying guests and spend more but we have to make sure that our product is ready before we go and market aggressively," said Montecillo about the proposal.
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| Recently, Montecillo announced that Australia’s Wild Orchid Airlines will start chartering flights from Darwin, Australia to Cebu this December.
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| The airline aims to offer 20 chartered flights until next year carrying at least 150 Australians in each flight.
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| "Australians are mostly adventure seekers so we have to prepare for that. Do we have the right product for them? I believe so with Cebu being a very unique destination that offers just about everything from beaches to the heritage sites to spa and wellness. All we need is a plan that will determine how we can move forward and push for these products," said Montecillo.
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| Montecillo suggested that Cebu develop further its spa and wellness sector and medical tourism because these industries could be packaged with resorts and cultural tours.
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| According to Prof. Fernando “Perry” Fajardo, Cebu Business Club executive director, in his presentation, the roadmap's strategic objective is to make "Cebu among Asia's top tourist destinations of choice."
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| He said stakeholders have to come together and create a Cebu-wide body or council to lead the planning for this growth.
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| Montecillo said she was open to this suggestion and that the tourism council should be lead by the private sector.
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| She cited the Bohol Tourism Council as an example. It is led by the private sector but also involves different government agencies and local government units.
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| According to Jay Aldeguer, president of Is lands Group, in a statement, the draft Cebu Tourism Roadmap is a step towards the goal of making Cebu a world-class destination.
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| Aldeguer said that experts are needed to guide the process.
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| “I think all the concerns and suggestions are valid and remarkable. The stakeholders seem to have bought into this which is good. What we need are experts to guide us through the whole process of transforming or enhancing Cebu if we truly want Cebu to be a world-class destination,” Aldeguer said.
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| Radisson Blu Hotel was also aiming to diversify its market and get more long-staying guests in the hotel, said Ann Olalo, Radisson Blu Hotel Cebu director of sales and marketing, in a recent interview.
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| “The Australians are a good market because they stay longer and spend more. They are not the typical budget travelers,”she said.
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| She said she hoped that the China market would recover soon, which was affected by the Scarborough Shoal dispute.
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| By 2016, Fajardo said that Cebu should already have at least 4 million tourist at a 15 percent annual growth rate and should be at par with Asian neighbors like Bali, Penang and Phuket.
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| Aside from the creation of a Cebu-wide tourism council, Fajardo listed immediate programs for tourism including a one-stop tourist information and service center, a marketing and promotions plan, a cluster beautification project, the widening of the Mactan circumferential road and Naga-Carcar road, the Marcelo Fernan tri-level flyover, the preparation of Metro Cebu Development Master Plan, the Mactan Island Tourism Master Plan, and an update of the Cebu City circumferential road study.
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| “These projects should be realized within one to two years,” said Fajardo.
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| The other short-term projects cited include the Cebu City Bus Rapid Transit, new Mactan Airport terminal, Hernan Cortes road widening, Cebu north coastal road constructions, Talisay-Naga road widening, and Mountain Barangay Tourism Development Project.
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| The midterm projects or projects to be started within three to five years include ebu Circumferetial road should start construction, Olango Eco-tourism bird sanctuary development, Mactan Aqua-ville tourism development, Cansaga Bay Aqua tourism development, Municipal tourist pier developemnt, widening of Cebu City-Hagnaya Port Road, and widening of Cebu southwest Road.
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| ==‘Attract more than Korean, Japan visitors’==
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| *Source:http://www.cdn.ph/news_details.php?id=14834
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| *Saturday, September 22, 2012
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| :By Aileen Garcia-Yap (Business Reporter)
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| Cebu should look beyond drawing more Korean and Japanese tourists, who are the no. 1 and no. 2 biggest foreign tourist groups for Cebu.
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| Increasing tourists from China, India and western economies is good because these travelers stay longer and spend more.
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| This approach was raised by Prof. Fernando Fajardo in his briefing of a Cebu Tourism Roadmap for 2012 to 2016 drafted by a coalition of 14 Cebu business chambers.
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| Fajardo's main recommendation was to create a Cebu-wide tourism body to lead the planning and steering of Cebu's tourism development, ideally within the year.
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| Fajardo presented the proposed roadmap to different stakeholders at the Marclo Polo Plaza for feedback.
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| "The body or council will take responsibility in leading, coordinating and planning the development of tourism in Cebu," said Fajardo, executive director of the Cebu Business Club.
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| AIRPORT UPGRADE
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| In response, Jenny Franco, Cebu chapter president of the National Association of Independent Travel Agencies in the Philippines, said she agreed with most points of the draft roadmap.
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| She said the coalition needs to address the downgrading of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport to category 2 because it dampens the volume of European and American tourists coming to the country.
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| Franco agreed that Cebu has to look at other long-haul markets like the United States, Europe, Middle East and Australia aside from Asian neighbors. “We have tourists from Australia who come here for medical tourism and stay longer than the Koreans. On the average they stay for two weeks and even four weeks while most Koreans stay for only four days at the most,” said Franco.
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| The coalition, under its Partnership for Better Infrastructure, plans to finish the roadmap before the year ends and present it to the governrment for action.
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| Fajardo said having a Cebu-wide tourism body would help ensure the road map is executed and well coordinated.
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| He said Cebu can target bringing in 4 million tourists by 2016 compared with the current 1.6 million visiotrs.
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| 5 STRATEGIES
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| The draft roadmap has five key strategies: product development; infrastructure development; marketing and promotion; outreach and public involvement; and organization development.
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| The “product” referred to is Cebu.
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| "For the first strategy, the idea is to build on Cebu's rich historical heritage and natural attractions but we also need new products and new local destinations," said Fajardo.
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| Fajardo named six clusters based on what Cebu offers.
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| Mainland Metro Cebu is for MICE (meetings, incentives, conferences and events), historical events, educational, medical and retirement tourism.
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| Other clusters are Mactan-Olango island, southern Cebu, north Cebu-Bantayan and Malapascua Islands, midwest Cebu and Camotes-Pilar Islands.
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| World class infrastructure, like a better international airport, is needed to draw more tourists here as well as improved seaports, roads and bridges.
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| “This way we can increase the visitor experience through safe, fast and convenient travel, fast communication, quality water, and reliable power supply," said Fajardo.
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| For marketing and promotion, he said the focus would be on brand recognition of Cebu as a prime tourist destination based on quality and varied offerings of tourism products and local destinations.
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| He said there was also a need to widen the market and look beyond drawing tourists other than Koreans and Japanese.
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| Developing a “culture of tourism” means getting people to see the imporatance of tourism to the economy and overall qualty of life in Cebu.
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| He said this kind of education is needed at the community level and can be achieve by involving citiznes in tourism planning, investment programming, implementation and monitoring.
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| *Mandaue City can develop factory tours because the city has the most number of factory outlets in Cebu, said Philip Tan, president of the Mandaue Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
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| *Using social meda to promote Cebu would speed up awareness, said Prduencia Gesta, president of the Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
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| *Concrete steps and plans are needed to develop the “culture of tourism” said Phineas Alburo, new chairman of the Cebu City Tourism Commission.
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| *Collaboration is key.
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| "We urge others to sit down with the rest of us like hotels, airlines, restaurants, travel agencies. We can all work together to push for our tourism," saiid Samuel Chioson, former CCCI president.
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| In 2011, the total number of tourists to Cebu reached 1.9 million of which 833,441 were foreign visitors. The bulk of 1.08 million were domestic travelers.
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| Koreans were the largest group (376,524) followed by Japanese (157,413) and Americans (71,488), Chinese (24,873) and Australians (22,100).
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| In a recent interview, Imperial Palace Waterpark Resort and Spa director of sales and marketing Dominic Dorol said that the property, which is a Korean brand, will start promoting the resort to Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Taiwan as well as Australia, an emerging market.
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| “As of now, Australians only see Phuket and Bali as a destination. We should start promoting our products so that we can see more Australians coming here,” said Dorol.
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| ==DOJ, agencies to conduct out-of-town services in Cebu6==
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| *Source:http://www.pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?article=1981348134866
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| *Friday, September 21, 2012
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| :By Amorganda A. Saludar (FCR/AAS-PIA7 Cebu with OPP-PR)
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| CEBU CITY, Sept 21 (PIA) -- The Department of Justice (DOJ) and other participating agencies is set to extend out-of-town services in the town of Consolacion, in northern Cebu as part of the department’s 115th anniversary on Wednesday, September 26.
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| Starting September 22, the Office of the Provincial Prosecutor (OPP) of Cebu will initiate an outreach program in SM Consolacion from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.to pave way for the residents in the mid-northern part of Cebu to be given legal services.
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| The activity will be in coordination with the Bureau of Immigration and Deportation (BID), National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), the Integrated Bar of the Philippines-Cebu Chapter, the Cebu Lady Lawyers Association (Cella), Southwestern University (SWU) Law School and the interns from the University of San Jose Recoletos (USJR) Political Science Department.
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| The Department of Health (DOH-7) also committed to extend support to the activity by strengthening its Anti-Rabies Law information campaign.
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| The municipality of Consolacion pledged to inform their constituents of the different services by the government and other private groups which they can avail of themselves for free.
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| Among the free services to be provided this weekend include notarial services for certificates of live birth and affidavits, OPP-Cebu clearance, NBI clearance, information campaign on Anti-Rabies Law, inquiries and information campaign on immigration laws, illegal cutting of coconut trees and other new penal laws.
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| Members of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines-Cebu, Cella and the Young Lawyers Association of Cebu (YLAC) will give services through legal clinic and free legal consultation.
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| The SWU and the USJR will also conduct legal information drive.
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| This activity and all the services offered is part of the OPP-Cebu’s “Access to Justice Project” geared toward giving appropriate legal services to the public including those in the rural areas.
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