For two decades and running, the city of Baguio remains as the leading destination for road trippers during summer, at least in the Philippine main island of Luzon, based on roadside assistance figures of a top vehicle manufacturer.
Vertical gardens mounted on simulated building walls have been part of the landscape of Burnham Park, the second year this flower carpet technique has been promoted by organizers of the Baguio Flower Festival.
The new Forest Lodge in Camp John Hay, Baguio City, with its Canadian mountain log-cabin motif and touch of Cordillera culture, complements its bigger next-door neighbor, The Manor.
When the Panagbenga, or the Baguio Flower Festival, was started in 1996, it was designed to bring back business to a city ravaged by the 1990 earthquake.
The annual Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Weekend of the summer capital’s service industry has been developing skills, and even new products, that offer potential business opportunities for aspiring chefs, hotel managers and entrepreneurs.
After a three-year negotiation, a group of singers and songwriters and the association of hotels and restaurants here have signed an agreement on the use of Filipino music in establishments in the city.
It took 10 years to build but The Forest Lodge, Camp John Hay’s newest 208-room hotel, expresses what its owners have said all along: the Camp John Hay Development Corp. (CJHDevco) will fulfill its promise to create a tourism estate in this former American rest and recreation baseland.
Piles upon piles of court cases are plaguing the development of the 250-hectare Camp John Hay in the “summer capital” called Baguio City into a modern eco-friendly tourism and commercial complex.
Chilling. That’s the best word to describe what some experts are saying about the economic and social upheaval that a disease outbreak could cause. Baguio City is no stranger to this fact when the bustling tourist destination was turned into a virtual ghost town during the last quarter of 2004 after the Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center reported to have admitted patients daily due to meningococcemia-like symptoms.
The protracted court battle over the Camp John Hay development in Baguio City has suffered further delay after a judge inhibited herself from the case following disclosure that her politician-husband had financial ties with Camp John Hay Development Corp. (CJHDevco).
From the onset, the list of candidates for the upcoming Philippine Stock Exchange elections looked unexciting, with all 15 incumbent directors—eight non-brokers and seven brokers—on the list, and there being only three “challengers.”
They’re out to strengthen the city’s longstanding reputation as the “Summer Capital of the Philippines,” one room at a time. They feel that now is the time, as the tourism industry has been given a boost (and a quota of 10 million tourist arrivals in the Philippines by 2016 by the Aquino administration), to spruce up the mid-level hospitality industry in Baguio City.
