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Thursday, August 9, 2012

Eco-tourism directory up for completion

By Jocelyn P. Alvarez

ZAMBOANGA CITY, Aug. 9 (PIA) - -   Locals and visitors will soon have easy "search" access to all eco-tourism attractions in the city as the comprehensive “Eco-tourism directory" is almost done said Councilor Gerky Valesco in a statement.

Valesco who chairs the Committee on Tourism said, once completed, the Eco-tourism directory will give people simple and trouble free listing of all tourism destinations in the city.

Expected to be included in the directory are the city’s waterfalls, caves, rivers, lakes, beaches, trekking sites, mountains and many others.

“Manada Zamboangueños nusabe cosa-cosa mga natural wonders tiene kita aqui na ciudad, specialmente el maga bisita o turista , mas malo nuay sila idea,”( a lot of Zamboangueños are not aware of the range of natural wonders we have here, specially the visitors, the more they do not have any idea) commented Jennifer Ybanez, a full blooded Zamboangueña.

“Grande ayuda ese lista de eco-tourism destinations, mas facil para canatun escuhi donde kita kiere anda o recomenda na diatun maga bisita,” (it’s great help to have the directory on eco-tourism destinations as this will give us various choices of destinations where we want to go or recommend to our visitors) Ybanez added.

“Puede yo abla na mas facil ya iyo ayuda na promotion del diatun turismo porcaosa unrato ya lang iyo puede recomenda maga eco-tourism destinations si tiene ya kita directory de ese,” (I can say that it will be easier for me to help in the tourism promotion coz it will be simpler for me to recommend eco-tourism destinations once we have this directory.) she said.  (JPA/PIA9-ZBST)