Garry Lao (middle), in-charge of the Lapu-Lapu Metropolis Tourism Workplace, referred to as for a coordination assembly with tourism stakeholders to debate their considerations. | Photograph from Lapu-Lapu Metropolis PIO
LAPU-LAPU CITY, Cebu – The Lapu-Lapu Metropolis authorities, by the Metropolis Tourism Workplace (CTO), held a coordination assembly with boat, tour, and dive operators, and tour guides on Wednesday, August 14, to hearken to their considerations and discover means to deal with these.
On the similar time, Garry Lao, the CTO officer-in-charge, urged tourism stakeholders to have themselves accredited.
Lao mentioned that their accreditation by the CTO will already be embrace within the necessities for the issuance of a allow to function subsequent yr.
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As well as, Lao mentioned they plan to provide you with a listing of accredited service suppliers which they are going to advocate to the motels and visiting vacationers.
Different points mentioned through the gathering, held on the session corridor of the Lapu-Lapu Metropolis Corridor, embrace the gathering of environmental charges, the necessity to guarantee environmental conservation and sustainability, and updates from the Division of Tourism in Central Visayas (DOT-7).
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Environmental payment
Through the assembly, dive instructors raised a priority on the gathering of the P100 environmental payment from vacationers who will go island hopping and interact in different sports activities and leisure actions.
A query was additionally raised is dive instructors may also be requested to pay environmental payment since they conduct their trainings inside the premises of their respective resorts?
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Earlier, boat operators urged the town authorities to decrease the payment as a result of it was already affecting their operations as vacationers would now desire to go island hopping in Cordova city the place the environmental payment is way decrease.
Councilor Annabeth Cuizon, authored of the ordinance that enables the gathering of the P100 atmosphere payment promised to, promised to assessment her laws and take into account the considerations raised by dive instructors.
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Nonetheless, the gathering of the mentioned payment will proceed till such time that her ordinance is amended.
Below Cuizon’s ordinance, vacationers who will have interaction in snorkeling and different water actions will probably be requested to pay the P100 environmental payment.
Exemptions are granted on Oponganons.
QR code
Appearing Metropolis Treasurer Claire Cabalda mentioned that they are going to quickly arrange QR Codes in tourism outlets to facilitate the simple and speedy cost of the environmental payment.
She expressed hope that the scheme may also deal with considerations on vacationers who refuse to pay the mentioned payment.
“I hope we not obtain studies of these refusing to pay the environmental payment,” Cabalda mentioned.
Through the coordination assembly on Wednesday, Cabalda learn the names of these with pending obligations as she reminded them of sanctions offered below the present metropolis ordinance.
A written warning is given to the violator for the primary offense whereas a written warning will probably be issued and a high quality of P3,500 must be paid for the second offense.
Violators will probably be requested to pay a high quality of P5, 000 and danger the revocation of their enterprise allow the following time that they violate the ordinance.
‘Hupo-hupo’
In the meantime, Judalyn Taghoy of the Cebu Affiliation of Tour Guides Inc. raised a priority on unlicensed tour guides known as ‘hupo-hupo” who’re illegally working within the metropolis.
Taghoy mentioned that tour guides have to be accredited by the Division of Tourism (DOT) and should receive a allow from the Lapu-Lapu Metropolis authorities earlier than they need to be allowed to function.
Accreditation necessities for boat operators embrace an up to date enterprise allow and legitimate government-issued IDs for boat operators.
As well as, their crew members are required to submit both a legitimate government-issued IDs or barangay certification.
Tour guides, alternatively, are requested to current their DOT accreditation, a mayor’s particular allow, and legitimate government-issued IDs.
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