Cebu to host UN world tourism meet
TOURISM Secretary Christina Garcia Frasco has announced that Cebu will host the 36th joint meeting of the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Commission for East Asia and the Pacific, and South Asia next year in an effort to reintroduce the Philippines to the world.
This, after the Philippines, represented by Secretary Frasco, was elected as vice president of the 25th General Assembly of the UNWTO as well as Chair of the UNWTO Commission for East Asia and the Pacific last June 16.
Frasco made the announcement during the Post-SONA Philippine Economic Briefing (PEB) Cebu, where the Tourism chief served as one of the panelists of the session titled “Reinvigorate.
Accelerate. Transform” alongside Trade and Industry Secretary Alfredo Pascual, Labor and Employment Secretary Bienvenido Laguesma, Interior and Local Government Undersecretary Marlo Iringan and Agriculture Assistant Secretary Genevieve Velicaria-Guevarra.
“We anticipate that with the policies supporting tourism under the Marcos administration, the convergences that we have had under our President’s whole-of-nation approach towards tourism development, and most importantly, our private sector’s partnership, collaboration, continued investment, and belief in the strength of the tourism industry, will allow us to adopt and occupy a more primary position in Asia and recover sooner than what is predicted,” Frasco said.
She stressed that Cebu, Central Visayas, and the rest of the Philippines will exceed all expectations because there’s just so many reasons to love the Philippines.
Charles Kenneth Co, president of Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry, also joined and represented the private sector in the panel moderated by Budget and Management Undersecretary Margaux Marie Salcedo.
