Capiz registers more tourist arrivals
Roxas City -- About P592.57 million worth of tourist receipts have been generated from an estimated 32,234 tourists registered to visit Capiz last year.
This was revealed by Provincial Planning and Development Officer (PPDO) Antonio Asis during a Socio-Economic Profile presentation about Capiz as part of the three-day provincial government's strategic planning workshop.
"There is a 20 percent increase of tourist arrivals last year compared to 2005 records," said Asis.
The tourist influx was classified into domestic travelers and foreign visitors which recorded 28,977 and 3,257 arrivals, respectively.
Roxas City and Capiz can be reached thru sea transport and or a 45-minute plane ride by tourists coming from Metro Manila.
The province belongs to the Central Philippines cluster being developed by the Arroyo administration as the country's tourism super region owing to its rich natural wonders.
"We are improving other Panay roads," President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in her State of the Nation Address (SONA) last July as among the next infrastructure projects for the realization of the tourism super region blueprint.
About P372 billion will be spent by the government starting 2007 until 2010 to propel its super region strategy through various catalyst projects for the identified investment and development areas to spur economic growth in the countryside and eventually lead the Philippines to achieving First World status in the next two decades.
The projects will include the construction of railways, roads, airports, seaports and irrigation projects.
(PIA/A.Lumaque)