The Philippine Department of Tourism (DOT), its company the Tourism Infrastructure and Enterprise Zone Authority (TIEZA), and the municipal authorities of Tubigon in Bohol province signed a memorandum of settlement on Friday, twenty second August.
This settlement is the preliminary stage of an infrastructure mission that may boost tourism, create native jobs, and promote environmental training.
The Enchanted Ilijan Plug of Tubigon Project marks the start of improvement for the city’s top-ranking proposal underneath the Tourism Champions Challenge (TCC) programme.
The settlement was signed by tourism secretary Christina Garcia Frasco, Tubigon mayor Marlon Amila, and TIEZA assistant chief working officer Jetro Nicolas Lozada.
At the signing, Frasco remarked: “As secretary of tourism, and as someone who has served on the bottom as mayor of Liloan in Cebu, I’ve seen that the very best concepts for improvement actually do come from our native authorities unit.”
Frasco shared that her experiences as a former three-term mayor taught her the significance of having nationwide tasks that reply and align with the wants of native authorities items (LGUs).
She concluded with: “That is why the Tourism Champions Challenge was born; it’s primarily an effort to crowdsource inventive concepts from the bottom.”
A obligatory transformation
The upcoming initiative will remodel Ilijan Hill, the nation’s first confirmed volcanic plug and half of Bohol’s United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Global Geopark, right into a sustainable vacationer vacation spot, with a PHP25 million funding grant from the DOT.
Per the phrases of the settlement, the DOT will present strategic tourism steerage, whereas TIEZA will oversee infrastructure implementation.
The Tubigon LGU, then again, will handle permits, execution, and long-term operations.
The Enchanted Ilijan Plug mission will embrace the development of an Ilijan Trail and summit backyard, a pavilion, an arts and cultural village, and help amenities resembling parking areas.
The DOT’s Tourism Champions Challenge obtained proposals from almost 100 LGUs throughout the nation.
Tubigon’s successful entry highlights the potential of LGU-driven tourism improvement, with nationwide businesses offering infrastructure and coverage help.
