ILOILO City celebrates tourism month with six events this September. It’s no heavy load for people who have the passion to make Iloilo City become a prime destination – a place to feel good, to be pampered with food prepared fresh, and where people are friendly and warm.
With the devolution of the tourism function […]

IT OPENED with the La Carlota drum beaters and an all-woman tribal dance. Violinist Jay Cayuca was in his elements when he joined them with a rendition of the Eye of a Tiger. They just emerged on stage unannounced as the lights were dimmed a little past nine in the morning of Wednesday, 27 August […]

THE guy was not after all a nincompoop. For he was staring and flipping something that was strange and unfamiliar to him - something that was passed as a permit but was not really a permit; because he was told by his superiors no such permits are being issued to regular buses. […]

IMAGINE this – courteous traffic aides efficiently guiding tour buses through the streets and thoughtful enforcers against jaywalking and littering; resourceful and reliable street sweepers keeping trash out of the road at the break of dawn; obliging and supportive sidewalk vendors picking up scatters around their stalls during the day; and a cooperative public preserving […]

TWO years ago, right after the AIM Policy Center made public the Philippine Cities Competitive Ranking Project (PCCRP) results for 2005, the Iloilo City Government invited some fifty (51) residents coming from various sectors to a forum to assess how the City fared with the other cities in the country. At the end of the […]

FOR Rotary Year 2008-09, Rotary International President Dong Kurn (DK) Lee chose the theme “Making Dreams Real” to impress upon the membership his thrust towards reducing child mortality – the 4th goal of the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) which aims at lowering death rate of children under five years old by two-thirds in 2015.
In his […]

BANGON Iloilo – Sarangan Ta Ni! This is the battle cry of Mayor Jerry P. Treñas for rebuilding the City in the aftermath of Furious Frank which left twenty eight dead and 255,000 homeless to rally the Ilonggos towards recovery and restoration efforts.
It is not just an order to stand after a fall, but to […]

Last of Three Parts 
PHILOSOPHICALLY, we understand the need for a critical mass to be able to reach out above the clutter. There are hundreds of regions vying for the travelers market. It is only through the collective effort of everyone in a particular area that we will be able to reach above the fray to attract […]

 Second of Three Parts
REGIONS of interest to Adventure Travelers tend to be popular precisely for the qualities of their attractions to mainstream travelers. Track record would vouch for the current popularity of Argentina, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Chile, China, India, Greenland and Iceland.
Though according to the 2007 UNWTO World Tourism Barometer, Asia is the star worldwide performer […]

First of Three Parts
THE PRINT “So Many Islands, So Little Time” in front of the t-shirt given out with the seminar kits for the delegates did not say it all.
There could have been a third phrase, “so few visitors,” in the statement to catch the folly of people who happen to read it and to graphically […]