Category: Review

Legaspi City (April 19, 2007) – A Singaporean group has expressed interest in investing in Legaspi City for the reopening and expansion of the Mayon International Hotel, amid the rise in visitor arrivals in Bicol region.

No less than CNN has cited Bellarocca Island Resort and Spa in Marinduque as the hottest New Generation Asia tourism spot. The luxurious resort island is managed by Genesis Hotels and Resorts Corp.

Go Hotels opened its first hotel at the upper ground level of Robinsons Cybergate Plaza along Edsa in Mandaluyong City, with a room rate of as low as PhP388 a night.  “For as low as PhP388++ a night, guests get a clean air-conditioned room with a queen-sized bed or twin beds, free Wi-Fi access and an LCD TV,” according to a report by Manila Standard Today.

Gohotels.ph hopes to reinvent the local hotel industry by being the country’s first genuine value hotel chain that operates like a budget airline.  The hotel has 223 rooms, with sizes ranging from 16 to 22 square metres.

A futuristic undersea resort will be built in Palawan province, according to a report by Philippine Daily Inquirer.  Dubbed as the Coral World Park, the multibillion-peso project will set the record as Asia’s first underwater resort development and the biggest undersea living in the world, once the project is completed by 2013.

Megaworld Corp. is developing a residential community called Boracay Newcoast at the world famous resort island of Boracay. The project on the island’s eastern shore is master-planned to become the island’s first tourism-oriented community. It will gather four international hotels and one local hotel and offer more than 1,500 hotel suites to beef up Boracay’s capability to serve a growing number of travellers. Also in the plan is Boracay Newcoast Village, the first exclusive subdivision to rise in Boracay.

Daluyong Resort, a 16-room establishment in Palawan, has been nominated by the Department of Tourism for the ASEAN Green Hotel awards.  “We are firm believers of the green agenda and are happy that we have contributed through our own small way,” the owners of the resort said.

Meanwhile, Mandala Spa and Resort Villas in Boracay Island reaped the awards as best spa destination as well as best holistic treatment.

The ASEAN Green Hotel Awards are held every two years.  Its criteria covers environmental policy and activities, use of green products, collaboration with the communities and local organisations, human resources development, solid waste management, energy efficiency, water efficiency, air quality management, noise pollution control, waste water treatment and management and toxic and chemical substance disposal management.