COMMUNITY-MANAGED TOURISM IN ANDA
Aida Bisaya, municipal planning and development coordinator in Anda, explains to the officers of people’s organizations their responsibility to manage tour destinations in their respective communities during a recent planning workshop. She heads the Municipal Poverty Reduction Action Team (MPRAT) which provides technical assistance and policy support to local initiatives in eco-cultural tourism. Mayor Paulino Amper has directed the MPRAT to visit all the existing and potential ecological and cultural tourism sites and determine needed government support to enable people’s organizations to make them viable social enterprises. The Bohol Local Development Foundation (BLDF) will continue to provide support despite the phase-out of assistance from the Philippines-Australia Community Assistance Program (PACAP) by the end of this month.