THE Davao City Tourism Operations Office (CTOO) has already awarded this year the consultancy services for the City Tourism Master Plan to a Manila-based firm.

“AC Ong Consulting Incorporated wins for consultancy services for the preparation of the tourism master plan for Davao city,” CTOO head Generose Tecson said on Thursday, August 2, 2018 at Davao City Tourism Office.

Tecson added the consultancy firm must secure first a notice to proceed from the Tourism Infrastructure and Enterprise Zone Authority (Tieza) so that the consultations and other discussions regarding the plan can already be done.

“There will be preliminary talks done with the firm. As soon as they secure the notice from TIEZA, we can already start to meet and disscuss the plan,” Tecson said.

AC Ong Consulting Incorporated is a Filipino private company, and is considered as one of the country’s leading Design and Project Management firm, providing infrastructure development in the construction industry.

As previously reported, the city tourism master plan has an approved P10 million budget plan for creating the tourism proposal.

Tecson added that the plan will be a collaboration with different stakeholders in the city in order to secure a much more inclusive tourism master plan.

“The plan will serve as the roadmap as to what you want to happen with Davao city tourism in the next decades to come, so that when the administration changes, the plan still remains,” Tecson said.

Tecson added that different sectors will be considered in creating the tourism plan. The private sector, the sector on culture and the arts, and the local government units will have a say in the tourism proposal.

Dates for the meeting with the AC Ong Consultancy Incorporated spearheading the plan will still have to wait until the notice from Tieza is given.