NorthPhil Expo 2011 at SM City Clark Started

The North Philippines Tourism and Travel Expo 2011 for all the exhibitors of tourism related businesses and local government tourism offices just started last November 11, 2011 until November 13, 2011. They will display the rich culture, traditions, products and artistry of each province in the central and northern part of the Philippines to all buyers and sellers for both local and foreign market.
Provinces that participated in the said event are: Aurora, Bulacan, Nueva Ecija, Pampanga and Tarlac. Companies and local government tourism offices also participated are Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority, Clark Development Corporation and Regional Tourism offices of Ilocos, Pangasinan, Cagayan Valley, Cordillera, and Central Luzon and booths of various tourism-related establishments such as airlines, hotels and resorts. DOT regional offices from Visayas and Mindanao also participated this year.
Activities are also prepared for the event such as culinary and crafts demo, raffle draws, small corporate games and various presentations showcases different talents of the Filipinos.
According to DOT Central Luzon Director Ronnie Tiotuico, this event was created to promote North Philippines as an International Tourism Hub. He also added that major destinations in Northern Philippines accounted to 14 percent of the country’s total foreign and domestic tourist which is 11.7 million in the past year. Among these major destinations are Baguio City, Ilocos Norte, Zambales and Cagayan.
He said, “To raise these figures even further and make tourism render a high and lasting impact on the region’s economy, we are staging the North Philippines (NorthPhil) Tourism and Travel Expo 2011 as both a travel trade promotion and a consumer marketing event catering to both foreign and domestic markets”, he also added that “The results of the interactions between buyers and sellers at the expo would help us determine the industry’s product development goals and the government’s infrastructure development thrust,”
Tiotuico also stated that Central Luzon alone has been gaining a sustained increase in local and foreign visitor arrivals from around 315,000 in 2006 to 430,000 in 2007, 530,802 in 2008, and 550,452 in 2009.But we want these figures to go up, not just in Central Luzon, but in the rest of North Philippines as a strategic marketing move.
This great event is supported by the Central Luzon Tourism Council and the Philippine Exhibits and Themeparks Corporation (PETCO) as the Event Manager.


For more information kindly visit their site: http://www.northphilexpo.com/