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TPB’s 12th Regional Travel Fair reaches implicit PHP 390 cardinal successful sales
The 12th Regional Travel Fair Reaches Record-High Sales
The 12th Regional Travel Fair (RTF) had a palmy run, generating PHP 396 cardinal from estimated concern leads arsenic good arsenic PHP 1.3 cardinal successful existent income for nationwide tourism stakeholders and weavers successful its three-day tally past October 13-15 astatine Robinsons Ilocos. The income leads for this variation of RTF surpassed erstwhile records, peculiarly with the upcoming motorboat of nonstop flights by Philippine Airlines betwixt Cebu and Laoag which is acceptable to instrumentality formation connected December 15.
Organized by the Tourism Promotions Board (TPB) Philippines, the RTF aims to fortify and beforehand home tourism by showcasing tourism products and services wrong their locality, successful their neighboring provinces, and each different destinations done the assorted representatives of the DOT determination offices. This peculiar just is simply a milestone task for the enactment arsenic it is 1 of the archetypal nationalist tourism events that the TPB held successful the Ilocos region.
“The Tourism Promotions Board brings this lawsuit to antithetic parts of our beauteous country, allowing big regions to shine, grounds their section products, and showcase their unsocial destinations. This RTF is an accidental for each of america to autumn successful emotion implicit and implicit again with the Philippines. We are thrilled to person this
fair go everyone’s gateway to observe each that determination is to emotion astir the Ilocos region,” said TPB COO Maria Margarita Montemayor Norgrales.
Around 70 sellers/exhibitors participated successful the business-to-business (B2B) sessions to grow their networks and found innovative travel-related offerings with buyers that person akin concern goals. Local officials besides shared insights connected their existent tourism concern truthful that funny stakeholders tin observe the imaginable of the destinations wrong Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur, La Union, and Pangasinan.
The 12th RTF besides helped funny travelers find their adjacent destination wrong the state during the business-to-consumer (B2C) sessions held connected October 14-15, 2023. Exhibitors from antithetic parts of the state presented discounted circuit packages, hose tickets, accommodations, woven products, and different section goods to the public.
The invited meal which hosted some the buyers and sellers was graced by cardinal members of TPB absorption and partners successful authorities reassuring the stakeholders of the committedness of enactment for tourism stakeholders. Present during the lawsuit were TPB COO Maria Margarita Montemayor Nograles, Ilocos Norte Vice Governor Cecilia Araneta-Marcos, Laoag Mayor Michael Marcos Keon, DOT Regional Office I OIC Evangeline Dadat, DOT Region 10 Regional Director Marie Elaine Unchuan, Provincial Tourism Officer of Ilocos Norte Xavier Ruiz, and TPB Domestic Promotions Department Manager Teresita Landan.
After the three-day affair, TPB members joined a post-event circuit that brought them to apical attractions wrong the region. The members were fixed the accidental to take either an acquisition of the affluent civilization and practice of Baccara and Paoay, oregon acquisition a thrilling escapade done a circuit of Laoag. This circuit serves arsenic an accidental for sellers to besides trade circuit packages of Ilocos arsenic they spell backmost to their respective regions.
The 12th RTF successful Ilocos was made imaginable done the collaboration of the TPB, DOT Region I, the Provincial Government of Ilocos Norte, the City Government of San Nicolas, and the City Government of Laoag. The lawsuit was besides made imaginable done the lawsuit partners of the TPB, which are Robinsons Ilocos, Cebu Pacific, and Philippine Airlines.
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TPB’s 12th Regional Travel Fair reaches implicit PHP 390 cardinal successful sales
Melo Villareal
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