Simple guide for those who want to venture in a tourism related business

1. Arnoldo C. Valdez, Jr., M.P.A
Supervising Tourism Operations Officer
TOURISM BUSINESS
OPPORTUNITIES
IN PALAWAN

2. Palawan Tourism Background
CITATIONS AND AWARDS

3. Top 13, Bluest Water in the World 2017
* Travel + Leisure Magazine

4. El Nido is Rank 14th Among the World’s 50 Best Beaches
*FlightNetwork (November 2017)

5. World’s Best Island in 2013, 2016 and 2017 by
Travel + Leisure Magazine

6. Rank No. 2 World’s Best Island
*Conde Nast Reader’s Choice in 2016

7. 2014 and 2015 World’s Best Island by
*Conde Nast

8. Nacpan Beach in El Nido – Ranked 10th as World’s Best Beaches in
2016 Traveler’s Choice Award by Trip Advisor

9. Snake Island in El Nido was chosen by Skyscanner as Top 9 & 7
Amazing Sand Bar in the Philippines – 2015 and 2017

10. Tubbataha Reef National Marine Park won the Platinum Global Ocean Refuge
Award. The first-ever Global Ocean Refuge System (GLORES) award for
Superlative Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)

11. Kayangan Lake in Coron, Hall of Fame Awardee as the Cleanest and
Greenest Inland Body of Water – Lake Category

12. Linapacan Island “Clearest Waters In the World to Swim In
Before You Die” -Daily New Dig, 2013

13. Palawan Tourism Background
• Palawan generated a tourist arrivals of
1,192,476 tourists in 2016.
• 80% of the province’s total arrival stayed in
Puerto Princesa City
• 64.06 % domestic tourists
• 35.91% foreign tourists.
• 0.03 OFW

14. WHERE IN PALAWAN?
Puerto Princesa
Coron
El Nido
San Vicente
Brooke’s Point
Taytay

15. Now, Let’s Talk About
Business
What type of business
you want?
Where you want to put-
up your business?

16. Why in Tourism?

17. Why tourism industry plays a big role in the
Provincial economy?
TOURISM ECONOMIC IMPACT IN 2015

18. Doing Business in Tourism
• The growth in international visitor arrivals
and domestic travel movements is expected to
bring about a corresponding increase in
capacity requirements and demand for new
products, facilities and services, thus paving
the way for local and foreign investment
opportunities.

19. • In line with the Government’s thrust of
making Philippines a competitive country in
the global environment through various
investments, investors, both existing and
prospective should be well informed of the
economic environment and regulations.
Before doing Business in Tourism

20. • Information about the economic
environment of the country and industry is
essential because it will help investors
assess possible opportunities and avoid
possible threats at the same time.
• Regulations, on the other hand, provide the
guidelines with which investments must be
done. This Investment Portfolio has been
prepared by Financial Advisors Inc. to
address prospective foreign investors in the
Philippines, particularly in the tourism
industry.

21. It aims at providing prospective investors information
about the investment climate of the country, costs of doing
business, investment procedures, and laws pertaining to
tourism and so on. Investment climate on the tourism industry
itself is included so investors can gauge if such climate is
conducive to their investments.
Why do we need do this?
The portfolio brings in together salient facts needed
by the investors to not only entice them to invest in the
Philippines but also make sure that such investments
generate acceptable rate of return to the investors and more
importantly, provide socio-economic benefits to the country.

22. Now, what type of tourism
related
business you want?

23. 1. Tourist Accommodation
• What is tourist accommodation? Any establishment larger than a
private home offering overnight accommodation.
 Example of Tourist Accommodations
 Resorts (island resort, inland, mountain resort, beach
resorts)
 Hotels
 Inns
 Apartels
 Motels
 Homestay
 Pension Houses
 Others

25. 2. Tour Operations/Travel and Tour Agency
The tour Operation business is defined as an
organization, firm or company which
buys individual travel components separately from
different suppliers and
assembles them into package tours by adding
certain value and
selling them with their own price tag to the public
directly or through middle men (Retail travel
agents/ travel portals/ Excursion agents etc)

26. 3. Tourist Transport Operation
Tourism industry needs transports in other to take tourists from
one place to another. So in tourism industry we find different modes of
transports which consist of air, rail, road and water. Hence tourists
have a choice to choose which one of the transports it is suitable for
them.
There are many reasons to choose modes of transport; tourists
might look at the following -speed, safety, price and convenience. So
basically these different kinds of transports have positive and negative
side effects.

28. 4. Food and Beverage
The F&B Services providing businesses deliver food and
beverages to their customers at a particular location (on-premise) such
as hotel, restaurant, or at the customer's intended premises (off-
premise).

29. 5. Handicraft Business

30. 6. Theme Parks and other tourist destinations
7. Health and Wellness

31. 8. Development of Community-based Tourism

32. 9. Development of Farm Tourism

34. Thank you very
much!

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