The Tourism Infrastructure and Enterprise Zone Authority (TIEZA) wants to kickstart southern Cebu tourism and has announced tentative plans to revamp the area. These include the redevelopment and reopening of several beach properties in and around Dalaguete.
Cebu Daily News reported that work on revamping Dalaguete Beach Park, formerly known as Argao Beach Club and Panagsama Beach could be begin as soon as December. TIEZA leadership said it’s exploring the possibility of allotting development funds to these redevelopment projects and is expecting to submit plans shortly.
A third site, a 12.2-hectare beach park in Barangay Casay that has been abandoned, may also be reopened. TIEZA owns the site, but it has not been active in several years which has contributed to southern Cebu tourism falling off.
In the short term, the goal is to get these beach parks back up and running. However, TIEZA is seeking out private partners in the long term who would be willing to invest in turning these locations into fully functioning resorts that would bring more visitors to this part of Cebu.
Those efforts could potentially be boosted by the building of an airstrip at one of the three sites being redeveloped by TIEZA. If completed, it would be Cebu’s first commercial air facility in the south and could help stimulate the tourism sector here even further.
“I believe that, right now, with the President’s call on tourism being a key economic driver, we are looking now at tourism as a major factor in our hopes to revive an economy devastated by COVID-19,” Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia was quoted as saying by Sugbo News.
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