{"id":52745,"date":"2015-06-23T17:47:38","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T09:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=52745"},"modified":"2015-06-23T17:47:38","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T09:47:38","slug":"canada-adb-dot-boost-ph-tourism-through-training-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/06\/23\/canada-adb-dot-boost-ph-tourism-through-training-grants\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada, ADB, DOT boost PH tourism through training grants"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_52747\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52747\" style=\"width: 591px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Boracay.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-52747\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Boracay.png\" alt=\"Boracay Island (Photo courtesy of the Department of Tourism)\" width=\"591\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Boracay.png 591w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Boracay-300x189.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 591px) 100vw, 591px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52747\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boracay Island (Photo courtesy of the Department of Tourism)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 The Canadian government, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Philippine Department of Tourism (DOT) aimed to boost the country\u2019s tourism by giving training grants to 22 hotels, resorts and travel groups.<\/p>\n<p>A previous $1.7-million skills program had already benefitted 25 awardees with over 4,000 workers in Bohol, Cebu, Davao and Palawan\u2019s local tourism industry.<\/p>\n<p>They were trained from July last year until June this year and were taught how to increase bookings, maximize room occupancy, have better customer care, improve housekeeping, and cut operational costs, among others, \u00a0to augment revenues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInvestment in the development of people\u2019s skills and talents is vital to a successful business in tourism and ultimately to a more competitive tourism sector,\u201d Tourism Assistant Secretary and technical assistance project director Rolando Canizal. Said.<\/p>\n<p>The new Tourism Industry Skills Grants Scheme (ISGS), which is one of ADB\u2019s tourism projects and funded by the Canadian government, has 22 grantees which were rigorously deliberated.<\/p>\n<p>The ISGS aimed to expand employment opportunities and hone the skills of industry workers, sustaining the country\u2019s gains in the tourism sector.<\/p>\n<p>The second training grant will then train industry workers to hone hospitality skills, know marine safety standards and improve tour guiding skills.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCompetitiveness is not about how many skills you have. Competitiveness is an attitude because you think and believe that what you do is important,\u201d Tourism secretary Ramon Jimenez said in a message.<\/p>\n<p>With the Philippines ranking 74th among 140 countries in the global position on tourism, the ISGS aimed to boost the country\u2019s competitiveness even more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 The Canadian government, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Philippine Department of Tourism (DOT) aimed to boost &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":52747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","category-travel","mauthors-cyra-moraleda","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}