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Tourism dev't plan a rehash of the old one?

By SHOOTING STRAIGHT | By Bobit S. Avila | July 16, 2011 - 12:00am

A good friend from Manila called me, but he wanted me not to reveal him as my source that Secretary Alberto Lim of the Department of Tourism (DOT) had apparently previewed and presented the Philippine Tourism Plan...

Opinion

Tourism law: Will it bring back Kang-Irag?

By Bobit S. Avila | May 15, 2009 - 12:00am

We where in the middle of Romblon on board the SuperFerry 5, just off where the Princess of the Stars met its untimely fate, when President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (GMA) was in Cebu signing the National Tourism Policy...

Nation

PTA plans to recover properties in Cebu

September 18, 2008 - 12:00am

CEBU - The Philippine Tourism Authority has sought the help of Capitol to recover at least 200 hectares of its properties ...

Cebu News

Letters on the Kang-Irag Golf Course and CBCP

By Bobit S. Avila | May 12, 2008 - 12:00am

Nation

Revisiting the failed Kang-Irag Golf Course

By Bobit S. Avila | February 15, 2006 - 12:00am

As I predicted, I got a call from Sen. Richard "Dick" Gordon who didn’t take lightly to our criticism of his proposed Senate Bill No. 2138, otherwise known as the "Tourism Act of 2005". But...

Nation

A catastrophe in the minds of defeated pols!

By Bobit S. Avila | July 25, 2005 - 12:00am

When Sen. Panfilo "Ping" Lacson delivered his "True State of the Nation Address," he said that the reign of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was "catastrophic" for the country. Indeed,...

Nation

Our tourism goals: A tragedy for Cebu!

By Bobit S. Avila | July 12, 2004 - 12:00am

Oscar Wilde once quipped, "There are two tragedies in life… one is when you don’t get what you want and the other is, when you get it!" I guess you can say much about this with Cebu now that we...

Business