Archive for July 25th, 2007

Service agency to open in Cebu

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

COLLIERS International, a major property services company, will open a full service office in Cebu.

This will be Colliers’ second office in the Philippines and its 54th in the Asia Pacific region. Colliers’ decision to establish a presence in Cebu is client-driven. More

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Smedsep study cites Cebu’s potential in medical tourism

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007
    WITH the extension of technical aid to small and medium businesses in Cebu, the German-funded Small and Medium Enterprise Development for Sustainable Employment Program (Smedsep) will focus on assisting the local medical tourism industry as a component of its value chain approach (VCA) for tourism.

“We want Visayas to catch up with Luzon,” said German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) Visa-yas coordinator Volker Steigerwald.

An initial VCA review found Cebu’s potentials to be in the health, wellness and medical tourism sectors while that of Bohol and Siquijor are in eco-tourism. More…

Cebu Pacific Reduces Fares For Domestic Routes

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

Asia Pulse via Yahoo!7 News

Cebu Pacific, the Philippines’ second-largest airline, has reduced its year-round `Go’ fares for most of its domestic routes.

“We are doing this because we want to stimulate air travel even more especially for the bus and ferry markets that we serve. We’ve seen how our earlier seat sales have successfully enticed people to travel so now were making these fares available all year-round. We also want to reward those people who book ahead of time,” Cebu Pacific Vice President for Marketing and Product Candice Iyog said.

The one-way fare for the Manila-Laoag, Manila-Legaspi and Cebu-Iloilo services have been slashed by more than 65 per cent.