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Southern Leyte Province News August 2011
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Lidef mission
- Source: http://www.mb.com.ph/node/332561/lidef-mi
- August 30, 2011, 5:52pm
- by Visayas Newsbits
MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte (PIA) — Some 700 Maasin City senior citizens got medical and dental services at the Office of Senior Citizens Association (OSCA) recently.
Local Senior Citizens Federation President Willie J. Justimbaste, Limasawa Development Foundation (LIDEF) and Rep. Roger Mercado joined hands for the said medical and dental mission.
Most of those who went to the mission had ailments including cough, hypertension, poor eyesight and diabetes and they needed vitamins and tooth extraction.
Southern Leyte eyes 'tourism loop'
- Source: http://www.interaksyon.com/article/11864/southern-leyte-eyes-tourism-loop
- 27-Aug-11, 11:21 PM
- by Philippine News Agency
TACLOBAN CITY - The Southern Leyte Chamber of Commerce and Industry is pushing for the establishment of a tourism loop to raise the number of visitors to Southern Leyte.
Southern Leyte chamber president Robert Castañares presented the chamber's tourism roadmap to the nine other chambers in the region at the First Eastern Visayas Chamber of Commerce and Industry Conference last August 25 and 26.
Castañares said the roadmap his group conceptualized can jumpstart economic activities in their province.
The Southern Leyte Chamber of Commerce and Industry, only eight months old, wants to make Southern Leyte the “playground” of Region 8.
Its first program was the launching of the Agas-agas Zipline in Sogod town, which is now getting an average of 100 visitors a day at P250 per ride. Castañares said that on weekends, the traffic can reach as high as 500, and it is just the first of five tourism hubs that they are developing until 2013.
The others are the provincial capital of Maasin, Silago, for a nature adventure and canopy walk, the whale and dolphin-abundant Napantao marine park which has been rated as one of the top five diving destinations in Southeast Asia, and Limasawa for a historical tour where a restaurant on the arms of a 100-meter cross will be erected.
Castañares said the provincial government will put up all infrastructure like a P14 million pavilion at Agas-agas while a private investor will be allowed to operate the restaurant. In Silago, all that is required are the animals. In Limasawa, the province is looking for funds for the construction of the cross which will cost P80 million.
He noted that Leyte and Samar have a population of four million people, and they are only targeting at least 200,000 visitors annually once the tourism loop is in place. If each visitor spends P2,000 a day, this will translate to an additional P400 million for the province's economy.