P 20 million budget for Bagac tourism enhancement program

BAGAC, Bataan –  Mayor Louise Gabriel Q. del Rosario has allocated some P 20 million for the construction of information office and museum, sports  center, road improvement and beautification of leading tourism landmarks of the town  to boost travel and tourism industry.

Mayor del Rosario and the Sangguniang Bayan are confident that the latest development program would further improve visitors arrivals at the sprawling world-class beach resorts in the locality which is one of the premier tourist destinations in Central Luzon.

He specifically pinpointed that the local government budgetary allotments are intended for the construction of a two-storey building for tourism information office and museum, Bagac Community and Youth Development Center, road beautification of the peripheral area of Japanese Friendship Tower and Death March Zero marker  and improvement of coastal roads leading to  beach resorts.

He enumerated the latest information coming from the Department of Tourism (DOT) that the province had registered more than 800,000 tourist and visitor arrivals last year which motivated locators to scout feasible sites to establish health and wellness retirement villages along the 80 kilometers coastal areas facing the majestic and pristine waters of West Philippine Sea.

Mayor del Rosario, one of the youngest elected municipal mayors in the country in the last 2016 local elections, has thoroughly discussed the great tourism potentials of the town with heritage resort, Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar, to Metro Manila based real estate developers to involve in the development of the coastal town with the growing demands for retirement villages from European and American markets.

Bagac, a third-class municipality in Bataan, has the largest land area in the province and located at the middle of  the two  fastest  growing freeports  in  the country namely,  Freeport Area of Bataan {FAB) and the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA).