Bohol Press Congress to banner tourism advocacy
BOHOL – The 11th National Press Congress scheduled from December 17-19, 2006 in Bohol banners “Partners for Progress : Media and Tourism” as its theme.
Some 300 publishers, editors, broadcasters, columnist, commentators and other communicators including public information officers, tourism, industry leaders and government tourism officers, campus journalists are expected to discuss the state of Philippine tourism.
Men and women of various sectors of the media coming from different parts of the country, in course of further strengthening their alliances, are expecting the leadership of the Department of Tourism to help them define the role of the Philippine press – particularly those practicing in the countryside – in the promotion of tourism.
Bohol Gov. Erico Aumentado, a former journalist, during a recent meeting with the members of the National Organizing Committee of the 11th National Press Congress led by Johnny Dayang, president of the Publishers Association of the Philippines, Inc (PAPI), Ciriaco “Boy” Guingguing, NOC vice chairman and Peter P. Dejaresco, chief of PAPI Bohol secretariat and Ely Dejaresco, publisher of the Negros Chronicle, hailed the role of the press in the promotion of tourism.
Aumentado, who is also president of the Union of Local Authorities of the Philippines (ULAP), said the press has played strategic and vital role in spreading the good news of the Philippines' best destinations and country’s cultural and historical heritage.
The Bohol governor also cited the community press for its role in making tourist from different parts of the world fell the warmth and charm of the Filipino people, including “our world class professionals and workers.”
For the part, Guingguing, publisher of the Sunday Post and former PAPI regional chairman and Peter Dejaresco of Bohol Chronicle and concurrent president of the Bohol Tri-Media Association, Inc. jointly called on their Bohol-base colleagues to extend the glad hands to fraternal friendship to the visiting journalists, considered the biggest group to visit Bohol during the 11th National Press Congress.
Danny Fajardo of Panay News and PAPI vice president for Visayas is the chairman of the three-day press congress.
BOHOL – The 11th National Press Congress scheduled from December 17-19, 2006 in Bohol banners “Partners for Progress : Media and Tourism” as its theme.
Some 300 publishers, editors, broadcasters, columnist, commentators and other communicators including public information officers, tourism, industry leaders and government tourism officers, campus journalists are expected to discuss the state of Philippine tourism.
Men and women of various sectors of the media coming from different parts of the country, in course of further strengthening their alliances, are expecting the leadership of the Department of Tourism to help them define the role of the Philippine press – particularly those practicing in the countryside – in the promotion of tourism.
Bohol Gov. Erico Aumentado, a former journalist, during a recent meeting with the members of the National Organizing Committee of the 11th National Press Congress led by Johnny Dayang, president of the Publishers Association of the Philippines, Inc (PAPI), Ciriaco “Boy” Guingguing, NOC vice chairman and Peter P. Dejaresco, chief of PAPI Bohol secretariat and Ely Dejaresco, publisher of the Negros Chronicle, hailed the role of the press in the promotion of tourism.
Aumentado, who is also president of the Union of Local Authorities of the Philippines (ULAP), said the press has played strategic and vital role in spreading the good news of the Philippines' best destinations and country’s cultural and historical heritage.
The Bohol governor also cited the community press for its role in making tourist from different parts of the world fell the warmth and charm of the Filipino people, including “our world class professionals and workers.”
For the part, Guingguing, publisher of the Sunday Post and former PAPI regional chairman and Peter Dejaresco of Bohol Chronicle and concurrent president of the Bohol Tri-Media Association, Inc. jointly called on their Bohol-base colleagues to extend the glad hands to fraternal friendship to the visiting journalists, considered the biggest group to visit Bohol during the 11th National Press Congress.
Danny Fajardo of Panay News and PAPI vice president for Visayas is the chairman of the three-day press congress.
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