
Boracay tourism resumes
“We are actually preparing for a ‘soft opening’ of Boracay,” said Gov. Florencio Miraflores of Aklan. Miraflores briefed the press on June 10 in Iloilo City at a forum hosted …
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“We are actually preparing for a ‘soft opening’ of Boracay,” said Gov. Florencio Miraflores of Aklan. Miraflores briefed the press on June 10 in Iloilo City at a forum hosted …
Read MoreWestern Visayas regional tourism director Helen Catalbas thus summarized the atmosphere in Region 6 under lockdown between March 17 and May 28, 2020. Catalbas told an online tourism forum on …
Read MoreMayor Suzette T. Alquisada will issue a ‘State Of Municipality Address (SOMA)’ at 5PM Friday, October 18 to highlight the 21st “Adlaw sang Tigbauan” marking the town’s founding anniversary. The …
Read MoreTOURISM WEEK: GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS The United Nations (UN) World Tourism Organization spearheads World Tourism Week on September 20 each year. In the Western Visayas region there is good …
Read MoreDespite pioneering the game of golf in Asia, the Philippines now lags behind its neighbor countries on golf tourism. Herminio “Menieng” Maravilla II, president of Asia’s oldest the Iloilo Golf …
Read MoreThe town of San Enrique in Iloilo, Philippines celebrates Kalamay Festival on July 12 – a tribute to its main crop sugarcane, from where sugar (kalamay in Hiligaynon) is made. …
Read MoreIloilo may have Taiwan-Iloilo chartered flight in the near future as the Department of Tourism Region VI and Philippine DOT Office in Taiwan arrange ground works to make the route …
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