Turismo Partylist: Former Tourism Secretary Wanda Tulfo-Teo filed her certificates of nomination and acceptance as the primary nominee of Turismo party-list on October 7, 2024. The second nominee is Dave Almarinez.
MANILA, Philippines – Former Tourism Secretary Wanda Tulfo-Teo filed her certificates of nomination and acceptance as the primary nominee of Turismo party-list on October 7, 2024.
A sister of senatorial aspirants Erwin and Ben Tulfo, tourism is Teo’s congressional agenda, which requires enabling legal guidelines to make them occur.
Below her tourism platform, Tulfo-Teo will push for tourism on the worldwide, nationwide and native ranges. On the worldwide stage, Tulfo-Teo stated there’s a want to extend the nation’s worldwide tourism arrivals, particularly from the neighboring ASEAN market.
“It’s time for us to have initiatives for commerce in tourism in order that our neighbors will get to know and go to us extra. Market reciprocity must be aggressively pushed,” she stated.
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On the nationwide stage, Tulfo-Teo stated efforts must be made to make it simpler tor vacationers to go to our varied vacationer locations. She added that it was time to overview and amend the Tourism Act of 2009.
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“The Tourism Act is already 15 years outdated and it’s time to overview and amend it to satisfy in the present day’s necessities. This also needs to embrace the nation’s response to dangers and in addition to to pandemics, local weather change and battle. We don’t want a repeat of the Covid-19 expertise,” she added.
Because the nation’s tourism efforts prosper, it is usually necessary that Filipinos profit from the financial growth that comes with this.
“This may assist generate extra jobs and livelihood alternatives. It is going to additionally allow Filipinos to take care of our tourism locations for sustainability efforts, much like the cleansing up of Boracay that I began on the Division of Tourism,” she stated.
“We are able to do rather a lot to enhance our tourism and together with your assist, we are able to put it up for sale for our nation and our countrymen,” Tulfo-Teo added.
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