DOT urges stakeholders to protect tourism environment from global warming
BORACAY
ISLAND, Aklan, Oct. 3 (PNA)- The Department of Tourism (DOT) has
started a nationwide campaign among the tourism stakeholders in the
country against the affects of the global warming.
This
was the message given by DoT Assistant Secretary Janet Lazatin during
the opening of the 3,000 seater new Eco Villare Resort and Convention
Center at Barangay Yapak
The convention center is the biggest in the resort island and is being managed by the Boracay Property Holdings, Incorporated.
Lazatin
said that with the threat of global warming, tourism stakeholders must
learn to preserve the 'environment of tourism' in order to ensure the
sustainability of the tourism industry.
"The
stakeholders could do a lot in protecting the environment by
maintaining their own resorts, practice waste segregation and be
concern and vigilant with the environment," said Lazatin.
Lazatin
said that stakeholders must learn to preserve the environment because
Boracay has already achieved its goal of becoming a year-round tourist
destination. Other tourism destinations in the country only enjoy
tourist arrivals for six to nine months in a year.
"During
the first three months of the year (January-March), Boracay welcomes
tourists from Western and European countries; April-June, Boracay
enjoys Filipino tourists; July-September the time of Koreans and
October to December are mixed tourists composed of Filipinos, Koreans
and Westerners," Lazatin said. (PNA)
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