Sun.Star Economic Forum

SUN.STAR Publishing Inc. President Jesus B. Garcia opened Wednesday’s Sun.Star Economic Forum on Business Process Outsourcing with the identification of challenges and issues confronting the industry.

This year’s economic forum is focused on the prospects and challenges of BPO.

Garcia, who was former transportation and telecommunications secretary, said Cebu being a limestone island couldn’t grow in terms of agriculture and industry.

“The only way for Cebu to grow is to grow through the services sector, “ Garcia added.

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SABAH’S top tourist market is its domestic visitors unlike in other countries like the Philippines where foreign visitors are the top travelers.

Data from Tourism Malaysia presented by Datuk Karim Bujang, assistant minister of Sabah Tourism, Culture and Environment, during Thursday’s Sun.Star Economic Forum 2007, showed that domestic visitors continued to be its top traveler from 2004 to early 2007.

Bujang said in 2006, Sabah’s visitor arrivals reached the two million mark – this represents a staggering increase of 460 percent from 373,180 arrivals in 1997. Read the rest of this entry »