INFORMATION and Tourism Officers in Central Visayas are invited to the #InfoTourismAdventureRace in time for the 22nd Radio 7 Convention on October 28-30 at the Coco Grove Beach Resort in San Juan, Siquijor.
The event has a theme "Bridging Information and Tourism Through Social Media."
Philippine Information Agency (PIA)-Central Visayas Director Minerva Newman said this is a not an ordinary convention of the Regional Association of Development Information Officers (Radio) because "we also invited the various tourism officers of the local government units in Central Visayas to join the event via an eco-adventure challenge to showcase the sensations of Siquijor."
Radio 7 is an umbrella organization of the Cebu Association of City And Municipal Public Information Officers (Caocampio), Association of Negros Oriental Public Information Officers (Anopio), Association of United Development Information Officers (Bohol), Siquijor Association of Information Disseminators (Said), and Association of Government Information Officers (Agio).
Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) secretary and spokesperson Herminio Coloma will give his keynote address regarding the theme, while Bohol is invited to present its Tourism Roadmap to Recovery after the October 23 Earthquake.
On the second day, the #InfoTourismAdventureRace starts from the resort in San Juan to the various race-pit stops covering every town in Siquijor highlighting the tourism lure of each challenge. Facilitating and coordinating the entire adventure race is Vince Escario, Bantayan Communications consultant.
The participants are divided into 10 teams to do the various challenges featuring the uniqueness of the island. Part of the team's task is to gather details and information about the province, the various features in the race and to blog or write and posts these in social media sites.
A blogger is part of the team that will mentor the the group on how to promote these tourism features in social media by making a blog and or presentation of the team's adventure in "Sensational Siquijor."
Fastest Team and Best Blog are given some prizes during the last day of the convention, while officers of Radio will conduct its annual meeting and election of new set of officers on the opening day of the event.
The 22nd Radio 7 Convention is hosted by the Siquijor Association of Information Disseminators with Larena town information officer Lydith Tan as president. (PIA)