Spending a day with old friends and making new friends at the same time always makes for a great day. Mixing that together with a special holiday, and also some wonderful food and spirit only makes it that much better! A week or more ago, our old friend, Father Franco Uras, an Italian Priest who […]
Philippine Tourism Improvements On A Budget
A few weeks back I wrote an article on one of the big problems facing Philippine tourism — and a very critical safety issue that by chance involved the Philippines ‘Top Man’ in the tourism business, Secretary of Tourism Joseph Hotchkiss Durano, commonly known as “Ace”. As a little aside, I wonder how many otherwise […]
Tourism Basics
Funny how time goes by. I’m way behind on my article writing here, and for that I can only say, sorry ‘bout that, retirement is a lot busier than I thought it would be. I started to write the sentence “a few days ago” and then I looked at the dates … turns out that […]
My visit to KevTech – The WalMart of Digos!
Last year, I made a visit to the KevTech Store, which is also known as the WalMart of Digos City. Digos is about an hour south of Davao. Last year, my friend, Kevin Smith was visiting Davao, and the Digos area, and Feyma and I took a trip down south to visit Kevin and his […]
Is the Philippines turning off tourists?
Over this past weekend, I got a little shock. I was watching the news on TV and saw a tourism ad for the Philippines. On the ad, they promoted a new tourism website that I was not aware of, so I visited. This is a website owned and operated by the Philippine Government Department of […]
On the road again…
Several people have already guessed it… I got several e-mails from people over the weekend asking if I was out of town, because I did not reply to comments on Friday and Saturday as quickly as I normally do. Well, indeed, I was out of town over the weekend. On Friday morning, Feyma, the kids […]