AARANGKADA na ngayong Hulyo ang Hotel, Resort & Restaurant Association of Cebu, Inc. (HRRAC) para sa kauna-unahan at pinakamalaking ‘VisMin Tourism Congress at Travel Sale’.
Inorganisa ito ng grupo sa layuning, mas mapalago at maibalik ang sigla ng turismo sa bansa at maabot muli ang pre-pandemic level sa domestic tourism industry sa bansa.
Nitong nakaraang 2022, ayon sa talaan ng Department of Tourism (DOT) umabot sa $3.6-B ang kinita ng turismo sa bansa at 5.23-M na mga Pilipino ang nakinabang at nabigyan ng trabaho dahil sa turismo.
Sa ginanap na 3rd general membership meeting ng mga miyembro ng HRRAC, pormal na itong inilunsad sa Belmont Hotel nitong Mayo 18 sa Lapu-Lapu City.
Magaganap ang VisMin Tourism Congress at Travel Sale ngayong darating na Hulyo 13 – 15, 2023 sa Waterfront Hotel sa Cebu City.
Kung saan itatampok ang iba’t ibang mga travel packages, booth ng mga hotels, resorts, at restaurants sa Cebu dahil masasaksihan din ang iba’t ibang booth ng mga hotels, resorts mula sa Visayas at Mindanao.
Ayon kay HRRAC President at Bai Hotel General Manager Alfred Reyes, umabot na sa pre-pandemic level ang domestic tourism partikular na sa Cebu.
“Currently, the Tourism for Cebu, if you talk about the city, yes, the city (is) doing very great already. Thanks to the domestic tourism. Domestic tourism is actually giving the hotel right now the life even not just the occupancy but the restaurants,” ayon kay Alfred Reyes, HRRACI President.
Dagdag pa ni Reyes, inaasahan ng kanilang grupo ang pagdating ng international tourist arrivals lalong-lalo na ang mga Chinese, Koreans, Taiwanese, at mga Japanese.
“What we are looking this couple of months is the arrival of Chinese markets, this is very promising as what they said they have already, in fact we’ve seen already local airline such as AirAsia, Cebu Pacific and Philippine Airlines are starting to fly early to Japan. So, Japan is the last one that opened, the Korean market are already coming back but not to the pre-pandemic level. We can see already the acceleration of the Korean market, you can see already especially in the resorts but I would say that 40-50% of the pre-pandemic level. The Taiwan market are slowly coming in. We already have 4 airlines are flying direct to Cebu, which is a very good sign. That’s why if you notice in the tourism congress we included GMR (airport) to talk about the gateway in the South. So we are very optimistic, tourism for both (domestic) international to come back to the pre-pandemic level” dagdag ni Reyes.
Maliban dito, kasabay rin sa isasagawang VisMin Tourism Congress at Travel Sale ay ang hotel & food service suppliers show, printing at packaging & plastic show.
Inaasahan din ang pagdalo ni DOT Secretary Christina-Frasco sa darating na VisMin Tourism Congress.
Sa huli iniimbitahan ni Reyes ang lahat na bumisita sa nasabing aktibidad.
“We would like to invite each and everyone this is our first VisMin Tourism Congress organized by Hotel, Resort and Restaurant Associations of Cebu and of course is co-presented by Union Bank that would be on July 13 to 15 at Waterfront Hotel Cebu and Casino, again we would like to invite each and everyone to join us in this particular travel show and not just but also to the travel fair and 2-day conference, one of its kind, the first in the south. So for registration and reservations please don’t hesitate to check out to our website @hotel, resort and restaurant association of cebu, incorporated and of course the thing with our website and Facebook,” ani Reyes.
