Noy: 23 new hotels to open in Visayas
ILOILO CITY , Philippines — President Aquino announced here yesterday that 23 new hotels would be opening this year in the Visayas alone.
Aquino said this was only one of the good news that he would like to share with the people.
The 23 new hotels would give tourists coming to the Philippines 1,200 additional rooms to choose from.
Aquino made the announcement during the inauguration of the coal-fired power plant in Barangay Ingore, La Paz here, an investment of the Panay Energy Development Corp., a subsidiary of the Global Business Power Corp. of the Metrobank Group of Companies.
The President said last week he also went to the groundbreaking of the Grand Hyatt Hotel at Fort Bonifacio in Taguig City, which will be one of the most prominent buildings in Metro Manila, with 400 rooms available for guests.
“Just yesterday, I visited Batangas to witness the loading of refinery modules of Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific Co. of Manila to be sent to British Petroleum’s facility in Indiana in the United States of America. In the next seven years, AG&P has lined up projects with foreign partners amounting to around $10 billion,” he said.
“All these businesses are based on the premise that they will have access to power. And (yesterday’s) ceremony serves as an assurance that they will have power,” Aquino said.
The President said these investments would bring benefits not just to the businessmen but also to the people as these would provide thousands of jobs - from the engineers and masons in the building construction to the hotel and restaurant workers to the cooks and waiters as well as drivers and even sidewalk vendors.
“Let us keep the spirit of change burning, as it fuels our collective efforts to restore our national dignity. This ceremony has flicked the switch of optimism in all of us, and we must learn to look back on this optimism when the challenges come,” Aquino said.
“This spark of inspiration must lead to dedication and commitment in fulfilling our individual roles. If we can do this, and allow ourselves to be guided by the daylight that has dawned in this country, then we will prevail,” he added.
