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TOURISM SECTOR MUST BRACE FOR ECONOMIC IMPACT OF NOVEL CORONAVIRUS – REP. ARAGONES

The Philippine tourism sector will have to work together with government to cushion the impact of the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCov) on foreign tourist arrivals given travel restrictions adopted in China, one of the country’s biggest foreign markets. This according to House Tourism Committee Chairperson and Laguna 3rd District Rep. Sol Aragones, who on Tuesday […]

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HOUSE MEMBERS TO SUPPORT DOMESTIC TOURISM EFFORTS — ARAGONES

House Committee on Tourism Chairperson and Laguna 3rd District Rep. Sol Aragones on Monday called on her colleagues in the House of Representatives to help promote tourism destinations in their respective districts to local tourists, emphasizing that domestic tourists spent over P3 trillion in 2018 in local tourist sites. In a privilege speech, Aragones revealed […]

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BSP-PSA MOA TO SPEED UP PRODUCTION OF NAT’L ID — ARAGONES

A Laguna solon who shepherded the law on the national identification system has lauded the move by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas to shoulder the cost of producing the ID cards. This after the BSP signed a memorandum of agreement with the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) on Monday to produce blank cards for IDs under […]