Vice President Sara Duterte urged tourism stakeholders on Friday to extend investments in sector-specific tourism facilities to “diversify the country’s opportunities and potentially increase industry revenue streams.”
“I enjoin our tourism stakeholders to work with other industry leaders to invest in medical tourism, heritage tourism, retirement havens, entertainment spots, open-space recreation, and more community-based travel destinations,” Duterte mentioned throughout the Meetings, Incentive Travel, Conventions, and Exhibitions (MICE) Conference 2023 held in Davao City.
Duterte, who served as mayor of Davao City, shared how town additionally hosted the MICECON occasion 10 years in the past and strengthened Davao City’s place as a “major player and attractive destination in the conventions and exhibits industry.”
“For Davao City, being the host of this year’s MICECON 2023 is an opportunity to showcase one of the tourism gateways in Mindanao,” Duterte mentioned, noting that she is honored and proud that Davao City is taken into account one of many most secure cities on the earth, providing guests a “complete tourism experience” by means of the convergence of tradition, nature, and journey.
Moreover, the Vice President lauded the Department of Tourism (DOT) for reinforcing home tourism by opening “Tourism Circuits” and “Green Corridors” reminiscent of Davao, Clark, Bohol, and Puerto Princesa.
She mentioned {that a} revitalized tourism business would allow sturdy financial development, improve the variety of middle-income Filipinos, cut back poverty to 9%, and elevate the Philippines to an upper-middle-class economic system.
“I look forward to the reemergence of a strong tourism sector in the country,” Duterte mentioned.—Sherylin Untalan/LDF, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
