Exciting Possibilities

A choice of Pre & Post Holy week Packages awaits you! Holy week is fast approaching and, by this time, you should already have made up your mind as to how you would want to spend your holidays. You can either plan to take a HOLIDAY BREAK or you may choose to have a HOLY BREAK. Either way, here are a few choices that may be of help to the undecided. You can still make it, but you must make that decision soon. The travel market is full of excellent choices. You can choose to take your family on a trip abroad, or take them to any of the beautiful islands in the Philippines. Boracay, Palawan, Camiguin, Bohol and Dumaguete have excellent vacation resorts that you can choose from. Our own Cebu & Mactan beaches have much to offer, if you prefer to stay close to home. For those who love adventure, why not take the family on an outing to Kawasan Falls which should provide you with an excellent and exciting spot to spend the day with the whole family. Since I am one of those who prefer to stay home during the Holy week, I will definitely join our yearly Visita Iglesia to the South of Cebu which will cost only P1,150.00/person or $22.00. The package will include an air-conditioned motor coach drive and guided tour to 7 municipalities and churches from Carcar to Oslob, with lunch at one of the coastal restaurants. If you wish to travel abroad, one of your best options is to join a Pilgrimage tour to the Holy Land with Egypt & Jordan, which is scheduled to depart out of Cebu on April 13 and arrive back in Cebu on April 22. Another excellent post-Holy Week Package is the Best of Europe-Ave Maria Pilgrimage scheduled to depart out of Cebu on May 5 until May 17, and another Holy Land Pilgrimage with Jordan & Egypt on May 11-20. All these tours will be accompanied by a pilgrimage chaplain, namely: Fr. Louie Punzalan, Fr. Dondon Aquino and Msgr. Boy Alesna. For exact details regarding these tours, you may contact your travel agency or the tour organizers Delmar Travel & Tours, Inc. & Land & Sky Travel for reservations.

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The Cebu Business Month - a yearly project of the Cebu Chamber of Commerce is in full swing. Chairman Mr. Wilson Ng met with the committee chairpersons at the City Sports Club to iron out and fine tune all the areas of concern as brought out by the members. The aim of the CBM is to have a minimum of 1,400 delegates from all over the Philippines, and hopefully from the rest of the world. Letters of invitation have been sent to all the embassies represented in the Philippines, with the hope that delegations of businessmen from these foreign countries come and see for themselves what Cebu has to offer. "INVEST CEBU" is this year's theme and, with the cooperation of the city and provincial officials, CBM 2006 will be the start of something BIG. We want to see foreign investors visiting our exhibitors' booths, where they can interact with our local property owners, hotel owners, restaurateurs, resorts & spas operators, airlines and travel & tour stakeholders, our fast growing ICT and SME market potentials. The four main components of the event are TOURISM, ICT, SME & FRANCHISING. If we all get our acts together, Cebu will surely be the next BUSINESS HUB of the Philippines and with the spirit and resolve of the Cebuanos, I will not be surprised if someday soon, Cebu will be one of the business hubs of Asia. For your comments, you may contact me at Delmar Travel & Tours, Inc. at Tel. Nos. 2536561 & 2536571. My email address is: [email protected]