Bohol holds series of consultations for Tourism Summit in June 2011

A series of consultations are currently being held in Bohol in preparation for a Tourism Summit in June this year.

Recently, Boholanos launched the tourism summit at the Bohol Tropics Resort  which highlighted the orientation on Republic Act 9593, known as the National Tourism Act of 2009, by Governor Edgar Chatto who authored it during his incumbency as representative of the province’s First Congressional District

Bohol Governor Chatto said that the summit aims to standardize tourism sites and services in Bohol in order to elevate these toward global standards. 

Gov. Chatto explained that the summit also intends to make LGU stakeholders aware of their tourism development options, since the provincial government holds that development in tourism does not only mean the development of sites and attractions but also the provision of support services to established neighboring clusters.

Among the presentations scheduled during the summit proper are the results of the inventory of the province’s tourism and tourism-related resources and facilities and the Tourist Satisfaction Survey conducted by the Holy Name University Research Center, as commissioned by the Deutsche Gesellschaft Fur (GIZ), which brings together the DED (German Development Service), GTZ (German Technical Cooperation), and Inwent-Capacity Building International of the German Federal Government

The summit proper will also come-up with priority interventions, classification of municipal tourism sites or attractions for development and to identify existing policies and laws and those that need to be crafted to address pressing needs of the industry.

The tourism summit will feature speakers from the Department of Tourism, Tourism Without Boundaries, PTC Chair Nunag, the provincial government and the newly established GIZ.

Bohol, an island province in the Visayas, has aggressively pushed for eco-cultural tourism as an engine for economic development. The province has successfully elevated its economic standing among the country’s provinces from among the poorest to among the most promising.

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