Capiz slates tourism workshop
Roxas City – The Provincial Tourism Office headed by Alphonsus Tesoro will hold a strategic planning workshop, January 14-15, at MVW Restaurant & Tourist Inn here to craft the Provincial Tourism Promotion and Development Plan.
Tanco said the plan is intended to "propel the advancement of the tourism industry in the province" in pursuit of his goal to make Capiz an eco-cultural tourism hub in the Central Philippines Super Region, the country's tourism belt.
Capiz is reputed to be the seafood capital of the Philippines and garden center of Panay Island.
Seafood is by all means one of the major products of the province. It includes various kinds of deep-sea, brackishwater and freshwater fishes, shrimps, crabs, oysters, mussels, and the exotic "diwal" or angel's wings.
The province is home to wide tracts of gardens and flower farms that have pushed it ahead of other provinces in the island in terms of cutfoliage production. It has exported cutfoliage to Japan, courtesy of Capiz Multi-Purpose Cooperative, Inc. with the support of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI).
Capiz also boasts of numerous natural, man-made and cultural tourist attractions and destinations that make it as another option beside Boracay Island and other major tourist spots or attractions.
It has Sinadya sa Halaran every first week of December as its premier festival. The province is also developing what was once a rural development training center in the municipality of Cuartero into an eco-tourism park.
The province lies along the Strong Republic Nautical Highway on the western seabed of the country. It hosts some 50 kilometers of the nautical or Roll-On/Roll-Off (RO-RO) highway stretching from Sapian town in the Capiz-Aklan boundary to the municipality of Dumarao in the province's boundary with Iloilo province.
The workshop will be attended by stakeholders in the local tourism sector. (PIA)