Tag: Wanda Teo

Teo, Año push for 60-day total closure of business establishments in Boracay

Closure will facilitate island rehabilitation,  Teo says (Eagle News) — Some Cabinet officials are pushing for the total closure of business establishments in Boracay for 60 days. Tourism Secretary Wanda Teo said she and Eduardo Año had discussed closing down the same from June 1 to July 31 to facilitate the rehabilitation of the island. President Rodrigo Duterte, who has called the island a “cesspool,” has given the two officials and Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu six […]

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Duterte says Boracay now a “cesspool”; orders businesses, officials to clean island or face tourism ban

 President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday called Boracay a “cesspool” that needs to be cleaned up. As such, the President told hotels, restaurants and other businesses on the tiny central island to do their part or he would ban tourism there. “I will close Boracay. Boracay is a cesspool,” Duterte told a business forum in his southern home city of Davao late Friday, according to an official transcript released by the presidential palace Saturday. “You go […]

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22 directors, 5 OICs reassigned to other units in DOT’s “first major” reshuffle since Teo took the helm of the agency

(Eagle News) — Tourism Secretary Wanda Teo has reshuffled officials in the Department of Tourism, the first major one since she took the helm of the agency in 2016. In a statement on Monday, Teo said reshuffled were 22 DOT directors and five officers-in-charge. Assistant Secretary Ricky Alegre, who was assigned to the Office for Public Affairs, Communications and Special Projects, was among those reassigned. He is now assigned to the Legislative Liaison Unit of […]

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Tourism chief: Statements such as Robredo’s make it hard for us to ‘sell’ PH to potential tourists

(Eagle News) — Tourism Secretary Wanda Teo on Wednesday said that statements such as Vice President Leni Robredo’s make it difficult for her office to “sell the Philippines” to potential tourists. “The Philippines is now becoming an alternate destination in Asia and Europe. Yung mga statement na ganun, it really…Nahihirapan kami i-sell ang Philippines,” she said in a press conference in the Mandarin Oriental in Bangkok, Thailand, where she and several other government officials accompanied President Rodrigo Duterte on a 3-day official visit. […]

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