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City to fine tune incentive offerings for convention organizers
A police officer spends time with her young daughter at Rizal Park along San Pedro Street in Davao City during her brief break from work. Lean Daval Jr
By MAYA M. PADILLO avao City is poised to become a major hub for meetings, incentives, conventions, and exhibitions (MICE) destination in the Philippines. In fact, more national conferences and seminars are now held in the city almost every week.
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To encourage more conventions to be held in Davao City, the City Tourism Operations Of�ice (CTOO) along with the private sector are consid-
ering revisiting the incentives program for MICE organizers. “Kasi what we want to do is encourage more conventions to be held here in
Davao especially yung big ones. Also yung mga liligawan natin para ma-hold dito sa Davao at mabigyan natin ng incentives para ganahan sila dito,” said Generose Tecson, CTOO of�icer-in-charge, in an interview. Tecson said incentives for those holding conventions in Davao City are different from the incentives that they are offering to those they are inviting to come to Davao. “Marami ng nagtata-
nong about holding their events here that is why minamadali namin yung incentives natin kasi iba yung incentives na binibigay natin sa conventions to be held here. Iba din yung ibibigay natin doon sa nililigawan natin para pumunta sa Davao,” she said. Tecson said they are still �ine tuning the incentive program and that Councilor Myrna Ortiz also sponsored the bill in the Sangguniang Panlung-
sod of establishing a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between the local government of Davao and the Davao MICE Execom Inc. for them to be able to work better. “Meron kasi yan parang several sets like if you have 500 to 1000 people we may offer them aside from airport welcome maybe with performers. There’s also other things like leis for the VIPs and syempre for the more than 1,000 may mga dag-
dag na incentives and the same thing to 3,000 and up. Even the private sectors are thinking kung ano ang maibigay nila. Like SMX Convention Center will give big discounts and even the hotels,” she said. Since Davao City will be the host of most of the conventions, Tecson said tourism stakeholders want to encourage people to go around the region and do their pre and post tours especially in Davao
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