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Seeing South Korea as an important tourism source market and driver for travel and tourism growth for the Philippines, the Department of Tourism (DOT) hosted welcome rites for the record 1400 delegation of incentive travelers from Korea upon their arrival at the Mactan Cebu International Airport (MCIA) in Lapu-Lapu City. Leading the initiative to greet […]
During her visit to Puerto Galera, Oriental Mindoro, Department of Tourism (DOT) Secretary Christina Garcia Frasco led the distribution of Certificate of Training Grants to leaders of Community-based Sustainable Tourism Organizations (CBSTOs). The certificate entitles the organization to tourism training interventions with starter kits for alternative livelihoods while they cannot engage in their present occupation […]
In a show of support to the local tourism industry of Oriental Mindoro, Department of Tourism (DOT) Secretary Christina Garcia Frasco joined divers in the town of Puerto Galera for a scuba diving activity at La Laguna Point, a popular dive spot at the local travel destination. Frasco, who sits as the chairman of the […]
Puerto Galera Mayor Rocky Ilagan expressed gratitude to the Department of Tourism for paying a special visit to the town. Ilagan joined DOT Secretary Christina Garcia Frasco and other officials in a dive activity. According to the mayor, Frasco is the first tourism chief to set foot in Puerto Galera since 2003. “For us dito […]
Tourism Secretary Christina Garcia Frasco led the Department of Tourism (DOT) in awarding two of its outstanding employees with the Career and Self-Development Incentive recently. Last November 2022, Frasco signed the Department Order 2022-146 or the Implementing Guidelines and Criteria for the Grant of Career and Self-Development Incentive under the DOT-Program on Awards and Incentives […]
Department of Tourism (DOT) Secretary Christina Garcia Frasco encouraged local government units (LGUs) across the country to join the Tourism Champions Challenge—a nationwide tourism infrastructure campaign to incentivize tourism development among cities and municipalities. A former three-term mayor of Liloan town in Cebu, among Frasco’s first directives as tourism chief is to strengthen the Department’s relationship […]
The Department of Tourism (DOT) together with the Department of Transportation – Philippines (DOTr) conducted an inspection of the NAIA Terminal 2, ahead of the approaching long weekend holiday in line with the observance of Holy Week 2023. Tourism Secretary Christina Garcia Frasco and Transportation Secretary Jaime Bautista made rounds at the NAIA T2 domestic […]
Department of Tourism (DOT) Secretary Christina Garcia Frasco said that affected frontline tourism workers will be subjected to capacity building and skills training programs in a bid to prepare and provide them with alternative sources of livelihood following the oil spill incident in Mindoro. “At this point, it’s really about ensuring that our tourism frontline […]
The Department of Tourism (DOT) joins hands with the International School for Sustainable Tourism (ISST) in organizing the International Ecotourism Travel Mart (IETM) 2023. Tourism Secretary Christina Garcia Frasco sat down with former DOT Secretary and now ISST chair Dr. Mina T. Gabor to finalize the preparation for the forum set on March 29 to […]
Department of Tourism Secretary Christina Garcia Frasco expressed her support to the launching of the “People Planet Profit: Principles and Practices of Sustainable Tourism,” a book on sustainable tourism published by the Asian Institute of Management, Dr. Andrew L. Tan Center for Tourism. “I am very honored to join you today at the launch of […]