The 2008Â Kadayawan Festival of Davao City this August will be a celebration of abundance.
Art Boncato, chair of the committee on publicity and media of the Kadayawan festivities this year during the Club 888 Forum of the Marco Polo Hotel on Wednesday stressed that as Davao celebrates its bounty there is a need to value the earth, the land, the natural resources and harvest.
He said it will be a grand celebration but will not commercialize the event saying that it is quite challenging but the tourism sector expresses interest in the Kadayawan Festival.
He explained that their objective is to bring in more guests and the event is open to everyone and to tourists both domestic and international.
The festival is a celebration for the Dabawenyos but holding it will not also block people people from other places to celebrate with us, he said.
According to Boncato, the tourism players especially the airline and hotel industries already made some offerings by reducing the rates and many already had availed of the zero ticket offered by airline companies.
He said the celebration is also to promote Davao City all over and direct flights are already open to other countries like HongKong and Singapore of which we have to take advantage of this.
“Many are looking at the market and still they do not know what to do about the access,” he said.
He said now that the access is offered to us then we have to support it.
Boncato also said that during the festivities, the airport will be among their concern where collaterals will be supplied at the terminals.
He further said that they plan to put up billboards in 13 airports nationwide in key cities of the Philippines about Kadayawan Festival where Mayor Rodrigo Duterte endorses the festivities and invite tourists to celebrate with the Dabawenyos in a city that is a must see destination of the country.
“The plans are being finalized and if they get the approval then the billboards will speak of Davao City and the Kadayawan Festival,” he said.
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on May 30th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
I think this is a very good festival, I would love to attend myself, but I will still stuck in Armenia!
-armine
on May 30th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
[...] According to Philippine Travel Blog, the country’s officials plan to put up billboards in 13 airports nationwide in key cities of the Philippines about Kadayawan Festival where Mayor Rodrigo Duterte endorses the festivities and invites tourists to celebrate with the Dabawenyos in a city that is a must see destination of the country. [...]