YOUTHS IN DINAGAT ISLANDS JOIN IN TOUR OPERATION, MANAGEMENT CONTEST By Venus L. Garcia As part of the festivities during the celebration of the 14th Charter Day of Dinagat Islands, the youth leaders participated in one of a kind tour operation and management contest. “This is the first-ever competition done for the making of tour packages. If we learn to understand
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our special connection with the environment, we will do our best to protect and preserve it especially when we do tourism. The exploitation of the environment happens when we human beings treat ourselves separate from it,” said regional director Mary Jean Camarin of the
Department of Tourism (DOT) – Caraga. The competition aims to promote the concept of conservation in Dinagat Islands’ brand of tourism by involving the youth as the future leaders of the province. Dinagat Islands bears the tagline “Biyahe sa Dinagat Islands, Biyahe