MINDANAO DAILY
T H E P U RV E YO R O F T R U T H , J U S T I C E , A N D D E V E L Volume VI, No. 241
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Tribute to Tourism Czar Catalino “Butch” Echavez Chan III
Saturday
August 2, 1955 - March 16, 2017
By Joe P. Palabao
Last March 16, 2017, Tourism Czar Catalino ‘Butch’ E. Chan III succumbed to cardiac arrest. He is survived by his only adopted son Aldrich Chan. He is the son of the late known Judge Ceferino Chan of Camiguin Province and his gentle mother is the late Mercedes Echavez from Cebu. He was raised with love and care and into greatness by his parents and made him as a banker and an extraordinary public servant as tourism officer and a known Regional Director in the country and worked with honesty, decency and integrity. He has been a Regional Director, DOT X for the last thirteen (13) years and served shortly as a Regional Director of Region 7-Central Visayas for almost three (3) productive months in the region from December 7, 2016 to March 15, 2017 and as a Consultant of DOT Region X. For the last thirteen (13) fruitful years the unprecedented growth and zenith of success of the Tourism Industry in Northern Mindanao is attributed to the
man of vision, man of action, and the man of the hourthe outstanding Regional Director and tagged by Business Week Mindanao as the Tourism Czar pf DOT Region 10. His brilliance in developing potential destinations catapulted Region 10 as one of the top five (5) tourist destination in the country today and has brought the Region in world tourism map during the Tourism Festival in London last 2014. Pasundayag of Northern Mindanao has brought Region X to places in the Philippines which he organized in 2005. Pasundayag has gone as far as SM Baguio, SM Clark Pampanga, Mall of Asia, Intramuros Manila, Iloilo and their first show in Ozamiz City. During the 4th Mindanao Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs Awards 2015 held at Centrio Ayala Mall, he received a prestigious Plaque of Recognition for his Tourism Promotion in bringing Northern Mindanao to a Tourism Global Festival held in London. He made an outstanding contribution to the global tourism of the Philippines. He started a world class singing competition-DOT
Singing Ambassadors, an annual competition participated in by the Local Government Units of the Region. He had helped in the promotions of the Region in all their tourism activities of Meetings, Incentives, Conventions and Events (MICE) which brought tourists in the Region in every event held. He has helped in the institutionalization of the Festivals of Northern Mindanao-the Kaamulan, Lanzones Festival, Pasungko Festival, Inug-ug Festival and all the colorful festivals in the Region. In a Paratuan ritual held in 2013, Quezon, Bukidnon, Regional Director Butch Chan was conferred by the Manobos as Datu Makaughop as he was always kind in supporting the Annual Sunggod Ta Kamanga Festival now on its 8th year of festivities. He is well loved by the Indigenous Peoples of Bukidnon because of his genuine help in preserving the arts and culture of the IPs in the Region. Northern Mindanao local officials and business leaders along with the Business Week Mindanao and Mindanao Daily News pay tribute to the Man of the Hour, the
man of Action, To u r i s m Czar a n d reminisce his work in the To u r i s m Industry in this part of the country. Cagayan de Oro Travels and Tours Association (C OT TA) le d by his beloved friend Jules Baril remembers his support and the laughter shared in many occasions and ease burden in work. C ag ay an d e Oro Hotel and Restaurant Associaton (COHARA)the longest running festival in the country led by its dynamic
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P15.00 President Nelia Lee of Ah Fong Asian Cuisine rememb ering him as a kind person always supporting their Annual Kumbira and gain national recognition in terms of National Competition and landed C agayan de Oro as an important event in the Region. Oro Chamber of Commerce, NEDA, City Government of Cagayan de Oro City-Mayor Oca Moreno, Province of Misamis Oriental led by Governor Bambi Emano salute this man whose dedication to government service is worth emulating and given due recognition. SM City C agayan de Oro le d by the active and dynamic PR Manager Ivy Guantero could not help e d but shed tears and say how kind RD Chan is and helped SM i n promot ing the Store throughout the country through the DOT X Annual Pasundayag Event. First Lady of Quezon Bukidnon See tribute, page 11