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Thursday, November 10, 2005
2nd Benguet Adivay festival on hold
By Jane Cadalig
THE Benguet Adivay Festival next year may not push through unless the province gets hold of the financial report of the maiden festivity last February.
Benguet Governor Borromeo Melchor said Monday the province could not yet lay its plans for Adivay's second staging until such time that the report is submitted for them to have an idea on how the event fared.
"We can not hold another Adivay festival if we can not settle first the financial (aspect). We need this to be our basis in (giving our) report to our constituents," Melchor said.
He said he already asked Tourism Regional Director Purificacion Molintas for the audited report but it has yet to be submitted. "We sent the letter two months ago, but there is no response yet," he said.
Melchor also said he is not aware of any pronouncement that the second Adivay festival would be held in January.
As of September, only the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) submitted its report on the trade fair component of the festival. It said the fair gained close to P3 million from the sales generated by some 80 private product exhibitors and the 13 towns.
DTI Benguet Provincial Director Carmelita Usman earlier said the revenue raised could have been larger had festival organizers were given a longer period of time to thoroughly plan out the series of activities offered.
The Provincial Government, in coordination with the DOT, held the first Benguet Adivay Festival from February 25 to March 6 this year, which focused on agricultural trade fair exhibits.
The festival was conceptualized to promote skills, crafts and resources that are indigenous to the province and eventually to increase the marketability of the products amidst the tight competition within the local and global markets.
It was also organized to boost the province's tourism industry and complement Baguio's 10th Flower Festival, which ran for almost the same period.
(November 10, 2005 issue)
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