Joining the technical working group in the development of the Iloilo City Tourism Development Plan in the several steps from data gathering up to the strategic planning workshop has made me realized that there is a whole lot that my beloved city has to offer in terms of tourism. It is just that we have not come up yet with the means of promotion and that will be fully utilized. Hence, the development of this plan is very essential.

As for my role in my part-time being a blogger about Magic: the Gathering stuff, I am thinking to post more city-related topics aside from the weekly local tournament scene. Blogging and vlogging has been one of the major ways of online marketing and advertising at almost zero cost. You just need to come up with a good write up and enticing pictures of the food, place or event. I have learned that more heritage sites are not yet widely known to most tourist and this is a good basis to visit the place and get to know more of its origins. This is already I think is a wide range for promotion blog posts.

For the food trips, I can schedule one or two places each week that I can check to try their dish and blog about it. There are new shops and restaurants already opening in various malls and locations in the city and that I needed to somewhat catch up. If only I have the money and time to do that.

We will see on what plan I can come up with to be able to promote Iloilo City to tourists and investors.

*Banner image is the Iloilo Convention Center.