CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Jan. 4, 2011—After tasting the good life this capital city of Northern Mindanao has to offer, Italian visitors here have vowed to positively promote this city as well as the rest of the Philippines to their countrymen in Italy and the rest of Europe.
The Italians, led by architect and real estate developer Romolo Nati, are in the country to “scout” areas for investment as well as rest and recreation.
Nati, president of the Filipino-Italian real estate company ItalPinas, said that the Philippines is not very well advertised in Italy and Europe.
Lawyer Francesco Consalvi, who like Nati is a diving enthusiast, said that famous diving sites in the world cannot compare to the beauty of diving sites in the Philippines.
Consalvi said that unlike Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Egypt, Maldives, and the rest of the world, RP’s diving sites and the rest of its tourist attractions are suffering from very little advertisement.
“Camiguin and Medina (in Misamis Oriental) have very good diving sites. But no one, outside Cagayan de Oro and perhaps the Philippines, knows about these places,” Consalvi said.
Journalist Cristian Marri of the National Geographic, attested Consalvi and Nati’s claim, saying that “not a single advertisement about Philippine tourism is read, heard and seen in Italy.”
The Italians tried this city’s famous whitewater rafting along the Cagayan de Oro River, the country’s longest Zipline in Dahilayan, Manolo Fortich, Bukidnon, the 18-hole golf course in Pueblo de Oro as well as famous Filipino dishes and swore that nothing can compare to Philippine tourism sites, ever.
Nati, however, said that they can only do so much in promoting the country’s tourist attractions.
“The Philippine government should do its part,” he said. (Bong D. Fabe)
No comments:
Post a Comment