Island Tours set to be launched with new boats
REVIVAL OF RIVER CRUISE
WATCH out for Dagupan City’s Island Tours, to replace the defunct Dagupan River Cruise introduced by the Lim administration.
The new Island Tours program, designed to promote the city’s island barangays and boost the local tourism industry, will be launched during the Bangus Festival 2014 scheduled in April.
“This will help develop the tourism industry in the cty’s island barangays and create livelihood opportunities for residents under our program One Barangay, One Product which we launched recently,” said Mayor Belen T. Fernandez.
The island barangays that will be developed for the tourism project are Pugaro, Salapingao, Lomboy, Calmay and Carael.
The city’s original river cruise project was abruptly ended after the barges used for the cruises were surreptitiously towed away in June last year by employees of Magic Corporation, a company owned by former Mayor Benjamin Lim.
The barges disappeared from the Daongan ed Dawel just weeks after Lim lost the election, claiming that the barges were owned by the company, not by the city.
Anticipating a protracted legal pdispute that could delay the relaunching of the river cruise, Fernandez decided not pursue the city government’s legal claim to the boats.
Instead, Fernandez sought assistance from the private sector in order to build new barges for the cruise project.
Fernandez said two multi-national companies, Unilever Philippines Incorporated and Procter & Gamble Philippines, had agreed to support the project and promptly donated the needed funds.
Fernandez acknowledged the donatioin of the two sponsors during the presentation and adoption of the Dagupan City Integrated Coastal Management Plan and signing of the Memorandum of Agreement for the Conduct of Water Quality Monitoring Tests in Dagupan City and the Upper Sinocalan held March 20 at the City Museum.
The island tours project was conceptualized in counjunction with the river renewal project of the city dubbed ‘Sa Ilog Ko, May Pagbabago.’–LVM with report from CIO
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