ICCB targets 1T tourists in Iloilo City Tour project
The Iloilo City Convention Bureau (ICCB) is hoping to entice some 1,000 tourists in its latest project dubbed as Iloilo City Tour. The number of target tourists could either be local or foreign.
Mannie Gruenberg of the ICCB said they are not aiming of more than what they can serve as they are still on the experimental stage. He said they are not after the gain from the tour but at the the same time they do not want to lose in this kind of business venture. The city tour project will be on a three-month experimental stage.
Gruenberg said hotels, travel agencies and tour operators will be given tickets to be sold to their respective clients. Each hotel will be given ten tickets. They will be given the hand on how to dispose the tickets. They could incorporate it through their promos.
The Iloilo City Tour is a four-hour tour in the different tourist attractions in the city. Each tourist will be charged P300 for the tour. The tour package includes Museo Iloilo, Nelly's Garden, Samson Montinola Antillan House, Celso Ledesma Mansion, Dellotas Antiques, Magdalena Jalandoni ancestral house and art museum.
The tour also include stops at the Jaro Metropolitan Cathedral and belfry, Molo Church, University of the Philippines and University of San Agustin. The sites included in the city proper area are the Muelle Loney, Fort San Pedro, Iloilo City Hall, Iloilo Freedom Grandstand and the Hoskyn's area. The other stops in the tour package are the Calle Real and Arroyo Fountain.
Meanwhile, Mayor Jerry Treñas said they are doing their best to market Iloilo through tourism. He added that tourism can only be developed through the cooperation of the local government unit and the private sector.
He said the private sector is the primary beneficiary of the tourism industry. He said the city and the private sector still have a long way to go in order to achieve their goal.
The chief executive said the dream to make Iloilo as the choice destination will come true for as long as there is cooperation between the local government unit and the private sector.