Marketing executives led by Manuel G. Sandagon, assistant director of sales of Bluewater properties in Maribago, Mactan, Cebu; Panglao in Tagbilaran, Bohol; and Sumilon, Oslob in Cebu; visited this freeport and Pampanga “to promote our destinations south of the Philippines.”
“We would like to take this opportunity for Kapampangans to go to Tagbilaran or Cebu,” Sandagon said during the “News@Hues” media forum organized by the Pampanga Press Club in cooperation with Park Inn Hotel by Radisson at the SM City Clark compound here on Tuesday.
Bluewater Panglao Beach Resort sales manager Louee R. Garcia said their property is just 25 minutes from the Tagbilaran airport but with the completion of the new airport, their property will just be five minutes away.
“We just turned six last July,” she said.
There are now direct flights from Seoul, South Korea to Tagbilaran airport, she added making their property within reach by Korean tourists.
The famous Chocolate Hills and the tiniest primates in the world, the Tarsiers, can be found in Bohol.
A P9,760 rate for two is currently being offered by the beach front property. She said they have no ties ups with airline companies but they coordinate their guests arrivals with them.
Sandagon said a lot of properties are still developing in the area like Belview and Henan among others which are also aggressively promoting Bohol as a premier destination in the south.
Mary Rose Delano, sales account manager of Bluewater Sumilon, said their property is just five minutes away from the whale shark (Butanding) watching area and about 10 to 15 minutes by boat to the Cebu mainland.
Sumilon is closer to Dumaguete but if you are coming from Cebu City it’s about four to five hours travel time by land, she added.
Bluewater Sumilon is a private 24-hectare island with 31 rooms. Delano said they are offering a package which costs P17,000 per night for two which includes breakfast, the ferry boat ride to the island as well as island activities like kayaking, snorkeling, island trekking and fish feeding.
Bluewater Sumilon will be turning 12 years old in December, she added.
Sandagon said “Amuma,” a Visayan word which means caring, nurturing, tending, and feeding may very well define their brand of service. Amuma can also be associated with a mother’s caring for one’s child, providing the needs of one’s kin or tending to one’s garden to bloom, he added.
Sandagon said Bluewater will be attending the domestic tourism Travel Fair slated at the SMX at the Mall of Asia in Manila in September.
