Pangasinan tourism website launched
LINGAYEN – Pangasinan’s tourism potential is expected to get a big boost after the provincial government launched www.visitPangasinan.com, the province’s new tourism website.
At the official launching of the website powered by Xplorra, a travel website designer, on December 6, Gov. Amado Espino III and Vice-Governor Jose Ferdinand Calimlim Jr., did the honor of logging in on the website during the 4th General Assembly and Tourism Forum of the Pangasinan Tourism Officers Association (PTOA) held at the Capitol Resort Hotel.
Espino expressed elation that the project, a cherished dream of his father, former governor and now 5th District Representative Amado T. Espino, Jr., is finally realized under his term.
The governor credited his father for the dramatic growth of tourism development that he engineered and became the benchmark of other LGUs in the country.
The young Espino pledged he will continue to provide the support and the vision to accomplish what his predecessor, his father, started.
He stressed that several programs and projects are underway to showcase Pangasinan tourism to include upgrading of facilities specifically those at the Narciso Ramos Sports and Civic Center (NRSCC), launching of inter-basketball tournament that will serve to launch the sports-based domestic province in the province.
He said the inter-town basketball tournament, which will see young people from 35 towns traveling for the tournament.
Vice Governor Calimlim encouraged Pangasinenses to help promote local tourism through the social media, featuring the province’s beautiful destinations.
Provincial Tourism and Cultural Affairs Officer Ma. Luisa A Elduayan said the province can expect to host hundreds more of domestic and foreign tourists with the information that is provided by the website.
The website, she said, will enable people to connect everything from the people to service providers and to the different destinations in Pangasinan. It will also have a link to all the towns’ websites.
Elduayan said the website marks the first phase of the entire tourism promotion featuring first three districts of the province. By February 2017, the website will feature the remaining three districts in central and eastern Pangasinan. (PIO/RRB)
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