Senator Richard Gordon has pledged to initiate steps in the Senate to convert Sta. Cruz Island into a premiere tourist destination, owned and managed by the people of the city of Zamboanga.
Gordon, who is the architect of WOW Philippines, the country’s tourism promotion campaign, expressed intentions to help improve Sta. Cruz Island during the Zamboanga Night presentation in the WOW Philippines event in Intramuros last weekend, based on the request of Mayor Celso Lobregat.
“I recommend that one day in this great country, very soon, we can finally realize the dream of making Sta. Cruz Island, owned by the people of Zamboanga, become a foremost tourism hub”, the former Department of Tourism Secretary said in his message before Zamboanga City officials, residents and even representatives from the diplomatic corps.
He believed that the island can be better run by the Zamboanguenos and promised to take steps, such as legislating measures, that will help ensure that the city government will be able to implement its plan. (more…)
