THE Department of Tourism (DOT) lauds the winners of this yearโs ASEAN Tourism Awards, with Secretary Christina Garcia Frasco noting that they have championed not just the Departmentโs set of standards for the local tourism industry but the whole region as well.
In an awarding ceremony held in Vientiane, Laos on the sidelines of the ASEAN Tourism Forum (ATF) 2024, three Philippine cities and 21 outstanding tourism stakeholders from the Philippines were recognized during the ASEAN Tourism Standard Awards.
The tourism chief personally handed over the plaques to the awardees.
The cities of Baguio in Benguet, Ilagan in Isabela, and Tabuk in Kalinga were awarded as the ASEAN Clean Tourist City. These are the areas where the flow of visitors and where cultural, natural and/or man-made attractions exist, according to ASEAN Tourism Standards.
Prime properties Pearl Farm Beach Resort, Club Paradise Palawan, Bohol Beach Club, Seda Nuvali, and The Forest Lodge at Camp John Hay won the ASEAN Green Hotel Award, an accolade that recognizes hotel industry players whose operations are based on the achievement of sustainable tourism through environment-friendly principles, human resource development, resource consumption reduction, and local community involvement.
Fifteen Philippine venues were also recognized for the ASEAN Meeting, Incentive, Convention, Exhibition (MICE) Venue Awards. This specific accolade is granted to physical spaces with quality facilities and impressive services, designed and provided for MICE activities with purposes for meetings, exhibitions, and events. According to ASEAN, the major criteria for the awards encompass the standards of physical aspects, venue management, and people working within venues that competitively meet the requirements of MICE travelers.
It is divided into three categories: room, exhibition venue, and event venue category.
Properties bai Hotel Cebu, Clark Marriott Hotel, Hilton Clark Sun Valley Resort, Princesa Garden Island Resort & Spa, Seda Hotel Nuvali won the meeting room category; World Trade Center Metro Manila (Manila Exposition Complex), SMX Convention Center Manila, Cordillera Convention Hall by Baguio Country Club, Isabela Convention Center (ICON), and Iloilo Convention Center won the exhibition hall category; and Palacio del Sur by Marcian Group, Jpark Island Resort & Waterpark Cebu, Infinity Garden by Baguio Country Club, CAP-John Hay Trade and Cultural Center, Princesa Garden Island Resort and Spa by Modern Asia, Inc. were named as the winners for the event venue category.
Meanwhile, Palawan-based property Daluyon Beach and Mountain Resort was named as a lead partner for โEnchanting Gastronomical Sabang Delights, Beach Forest and Caves” under the ASEAN Sustainable Tourism Awards.
During the ATF 2024 Philippine night hosted by DOT and its marketing arm Tourism Promotions Board (TPB), Secretary Frasco acknowledged all the winners present.
She emphasized the significant contributions of tourism stakeholders from the private sector to make the industry proper not just through revenue contributions but by employing millions of Filipinos.
โ๐ ๐ฆ๐น๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ถ๐ญ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ช๐ด๐ฎ ๐๐ธ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ๐ด, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ ๐ฆ๐น๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ, ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ค๐ช๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐ง๐ฆ๐ญ๐ต ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ถ๐ญ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด, ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ง๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐๐ช๐ญ๐ช๐ฑ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ดโ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐๐ช๐ญ๐ช๐ฑ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ช๐ด๐ฎ ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ฃ๐ญ๐ช๐ด๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ดโ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐จ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ค๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐ค๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ด๐ต ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐จ๐ช๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด ๐ข๐ธ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ. ๐๐ณ๐ถ๐ญ๐บ, ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ญ๐ช๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด. ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ข๐ค๐ฉ๐ช๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ด ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ง๐ญ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ญ๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐น๐ค๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ต ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ช๐ด๐ฎ ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต ๐ข๐ญ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ต๐ณ๐ช๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต๐ฆ ๐ด๐ช๐จ๐ฏ๐ช๐ง๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ฏ๐ต๐ญ๐บ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ข๐ฅ๐ท๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ช๐ฏ๐ข๐ฃ๐ช๐ญ๐ช๐ต๐บ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ช๐ด๐ฎ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐บ,โ Secretary Frasco said during the Philippine Night Function in Laos.
โ๐ ๐ข๐ฎ ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ด๐ฆ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ถ๐ด ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ข๐ค๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ช๐ด๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐น๐ค๐ช๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฎ๐ช๐ต๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ฃ๐ช๐ญ๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ฆ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ญ๐ช๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ธ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ข ๐ด๐ฉ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ท๐ช๐ด๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ถ๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ข๐ด ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ช๐ท๐ช๐ด๐ช๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐๐. ๐๐ฏ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ญ๐ญ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ท๐ข๐ญ๐ถ๐ข๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด, ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐ถ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ธ๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ ๐ด๐ถ๐ค๐ค๐ฆ๐ด๐ด๐ง๐ถ๐ญ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ช๐ด๐ฎ ๐ด๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ด๐ฑ๐ช๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ญ๐ฅ,โ she added.
๐ค๐๐ฎ๐น๐ถ๐๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐ฝ๐ผ๐ป๐๐ถ๐ฏ๐น๐ฒ ๐ง๐ผ๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐บ โ ๐ฆ๐๐๐๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ฆ๐๐๐ก ๐๐๐๐๐ฟ๐ฒ
With the theme โQuality and Responsible Tourism – Sustaining ASEAN Future,” The Philippines, represented by Secretary Frasco, also shared its commitment to sustainable and responsible tourism practices in a series of panel discussions participated by tourism ministers, representatives from various governments, as well as private sector organizations within the region.
โ๐๐ญ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฆ๐น๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ข๐จ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐ถ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ด๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ญ๐ช๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด, ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ข๐ญ๐ง ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต, ๐๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฏ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐. ๐๐ข๐ณ๐ค๐ฐ๐ด, ๐๐ณ., ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฅ๐ท๐ฐ๐ค๐ข๐ค๐ช๐ฆ๐ด,โ said Frasco.
โ๐๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ๐ต, ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ฉ๐ข๐ด ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ค๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ถ๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ข๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ช๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ถ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ธ ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ญ๐ช๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ข๐ด ๐ข ๐ต๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ช๐ด๐ฎ ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ด๐ช๐ข, ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ช๐ต๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ธ๐ข๐ณ๐ฎ๐ต๐ฉ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฑ๐ช๐ต๐ข๐ญ๐ช๐ต๐บ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ช๐จ๐ฏ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต ๐ด๐ฎ๐ช๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ด ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐น๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ,โ added the tourism chief.
During her intervention, Secretary Frasco took the opportunity to invite her fellow tourism ministers and National Tourism Organization heads to the Philippines, as the country takes its turn to Chair the 36th UNWTO Joint Commission Meeting of East Asia and the Pacific, and the Commission of South Asia in Cebu this year.
โ๐๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ถ๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ, ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ถ๐ฏ๐ช๐ต๐บ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ณ๐ฆ-๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ถ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ธ ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ญ๐ช๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ณ-๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ง๐ง๐ช๐ญ๐ช๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ต๐ณ๐บ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ข ๐ง๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ฉ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ธ ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ช๐ญ๐ช๐ฑ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฐ ๐ด๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐บ,โ the tourism chief said.
Joining the tourism chief in representing the Philippines is National Tourism Organization (NTO) head OIC-Undersecretary Verna C. Buensuceso, Undersecretary Shahlimar Hofer Tamano, and Assistant Secretary Rica Bueno.
The meeting was also attended by ASEAN top officials and tourism ministers from the region.
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