Nightlife, shopping pushed as Davao City come-on

Key players in the tourism industry of Davao are considering the city's healthy nightlife and shopping centers as the destinations that they will push for promoting the city. They thought of this package in order not to compete with the destinations being promoted by its neighbors in the BIMP EAGA region and these activities will purely be wholesome even as tourism players stick to their vision of promoting mainly family entertainment.

There are activities at night in the city that promotes the culture and music referring to the Taboan at Matina Town Square, Jack's Ridge and other organized events in places like The Venue and in several hotels of the city.

The People's Park at night is in itself a destination and it is already included in the package that the travel agencies had designed.

The tour packages that these operators want their visitors to experience would include the malls as a must see destinations as many visitors would love shopping. The packages are redesigned to complement that of Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei.

I think it is high time that tourism leaders rethink of now strategies inorder to improve traffic of visitors here considering that a lot of beautiful sites both in the island and highland that are comparable if not more beautiful than in other parts of the world.