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January 25 , 2009 Tacloban City – President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s P38 Million water system project for Calicoan Island at Guiuan, Eastern Samar, is about to be completed, Mayor Analiza G. Kwan informed the Philippine Information Agency. Read More November 30, 2008 Tacloban City – More investments are expected to influx in Calicoan Island , Guiuan, Eastern Samar with the near completion of P38 million water system that would supply resort’s operational requirement. ...It can be recalled that on September 1, 2007, Tim Brumlik, of the Calicoan Island Resort Development Corp. (CIRDC), announced that a $160 million 11 hectare beach resort will be constructed on Calicoan Island this year and would be finished in 2 years. Read More September 27, 2008 Tacloban City – All is set for the visit of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, said Mayor Analiza Kwan of Guiuan, Eastern Samar ... Already, the President has caused the ongoing rehabilitation of the Guiuan Airport so that tourists will be able to fly directly to the island. Read More September 2, 2008 Borongan, Eastern Samar – Foreign and local tourists may now have a convenient way of discovering the unexplored paradise in Eastern Samar. This, after the new airport in the provincial capital city of Borongan opened here yesterday with an inaugural flight of South East Asian Airlines (Seair). Read More July 20, 2008 Tacloban City - The Guiuan Airport Development Project, a SONA commitment of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, is now being implemented in full blast, Guiuan Mayor Analiza Kwan informed. The airport is seen as the key to the coming of more tourists to the island paradise which is being promoted by no less than President Arroyo as a major destination in the Visayas. Read More July 16, 2008 Calbayog City, Western Samar - President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has ordered the immediate release of P478 million for the rehabilitation of the lone coastal road of Eastern Samar ... The President is pushing for the development of Samar Island as a tourism destination Read More July 4, 2008 MANILA, Philippines - The Philippines was recently declared as a popular real estate hub in Southeast Asia by international commercial real estate services firm CB Richard Ellis Philippines. It further cited that "investment opportunities in tourism, infrastructure, mining and real estate remain high" here. Read More July 4, 2008 - Merrill upbeat on Thailand and the Philippines - Merrill Lynch has turned more bullish over Thailand and the Philippines within Asia-Pacific ex-Japan equities, at the expense of Indonesia, and Singapore. Read More July 2, 2008 MANILA, Philippines - The Philippines, southeast Asia's fastest-growing economy last year, is also the region's "hottest" real-estate hub, a leading international real-estate services company said. Read More June 12, 2008 - TACLOBAN CITY – Eastern Visayas benefited from the government’s holiday economics as shown by the increase in local tourist arrivals in 2007. Read More June
5, 2008 - Macau has already passed the Las Vegas Strip as the highest-grossing center of gambling revenue; now it looks likely that Asia will soon surpass the United States as the largest regional casino gambling zone. May
18, 2008 - The Guiuan Airport Development Project, a SONA commitment of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, is now being implemented in full blast.
The airport is seen as the key to the coming of more tourists to the island paradise which is being promoted by no less than President Arroyo as a major destination in the Visayas. May 12, 2008 - President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's SONA project, the rehabilitation of the Guiuan Airport, is now ongoing, Presidential Assistant for Eastern Visayas Secretary Victor Domingo informed during the launching of the PGMA Job Center Kiosk at the Department of Labor and Industry. Read More April 2, 2008 - Chinese firm to invest $2B in 'Boni,' Samar:A Chinese company engaged in property development has pledged a $2-billion investment in the Philippines, President Gloria Arroyo announced on Tuesday during the second day of her Hong Kong visit. Read More January 14, 2008 - Manila, Philippines: Tourist Arrivals From Guam Up 5.2% In 2007 ... Close to 40,000 tourists from Guam arrived in the Philippines from January to December 2007, data from the Philippine Department of Tourism (DOT) showed. Read More December 15, 2007 (Vol. 29 NO. 12 December 2007) the in-flight magazine of Philippine Airlines in the December issue, featured a story entitled "Christmas at the Beach", describing Calicoan Island as a "true getaway". The accompanying photograph of the beach was taken directly on the ocean in front of CIRDC's Resort site. Read the full story and see the article here: Read More December 4, 2007 (Tacloban City) -- Palace official says media can help in achieving PGMA's super region goals - Presidential Assistant for Eastern Visayas, Secretary Victor Domingo declared that the media practitioners in Region 8 can do great help in the achievement of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's vision of making Central Philippines Super Region to which Region 8 belongs, as the Center of Tourism in the country. Read More November 24, 2007 (Tacloban City) -- The future is bright for the tourism industry in Eastern Visayas, Secretary Victor Domingo, Presidential Assistant for Eastern Visayas declared when he was guest at the Panindugan television program of the Philippine Information Agency. Read More November 12, 2007 -- PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal Arroyo reiterated the government’s commitment to upgrade the Daniel Z. Romualdez Airport in Tacloban City into Eastern Visayas’ first alternate international airport to boost the region’s bid to become a viable tourism destination under Mrs. Arroyo’s super regions program. Read More November 11, 2007
-- PGMA's Leyte-Samar visit bolsters super regions development projects.
Economic activities and the potential of Eastern Visayas to become the
country's premier tourism destination under the super regions concept
was amplified 10-fold with the visit of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
here and Eastern Samar Friday. October 29, 2007 -- Businessmen investing in new resorts By Helen Flores Businessmen are investing billions of pesos in constructing new first-class resorts and in expanding existing ones to accommodate the rising number of foreign and domestic tourists, Tourism Secretary Joseph Ace Durano said yesterday. Read More October 15, 2007 - PA Domingo Assures Rehab of Guiuan Airport to Push Through This Year By: Joey A. Gabieta Tacloban City – Presidential assistant for eastern Visayas Victor “Vic” Domingo gave the assurance that the improvement works for the airport in Guiuan, Eastern Samar will push through within the year. Read More September 1, 2007 -- GUIUAN, EASTERN SAMAR -- A multimillion-dollar beach resort would soon rise on Calicoan Island, which is envisioned as the surfing capital in Eastern Visayas. Tim Brumlik, American resort developer and director of the Calicoan Island Resort Development Corp. (CIRDC), said the project would cost around $160 million. Read More August 14, 2007 -- Tourism will produce 650 jobs in Eastern Samar - Close to a thousand jobs will cater to the long-awaited dream of many Eastern Samarenos to find employment ... This was learned from Timothy “Tim” Brumlik, Director of Calicoan Integrated Resort Development Corporation (CIRDC) in an interview with media during the launching Read More August 12, 2007 -- A sanctuary of privacy and indulgence highlighted by tropical landscape and surrounded by the relaxing sound of the ocean – this is how Calicoan Beach and Surfing Resorts, which was launched on August 10, will win the hearts of local and international tourists. Read More |