DAVAO City can accommodate tourist influx during this year’s Kadayawan Festival, an official from the festival’s executive committee assured.
“We are confident that we can accommodate the influx of tourists and visitors for this year’s Kadayawan,” Gene Bangayan, co-chairperson of Davao MICE Board and Rogen Inn’s hotel manager, said on July 17, 2023.
Bangayan said up-and-coming hotels are being constructed, but admits that hotels alone might not be enough in accommodating local and international tourist arrivals.
“But based on past experiences, meron tayong mga (we do have) homestays, so we have several homes who are willing to accommodate, we are hoping that that will be the case also for this year,” Bangayan said.
Aside from homestays, Bangayan said resorts and hotels from neighboring cities such as in the Island Garden City of Samal (Igacos) could also accommodate other tourists as well, giving tourists other options to stay after the festivities.
Meanwhile, Davao City Tourism Operations Office officer-in-charge Jennifer Romero said that based on their data banking inventory, they have currently a “strong 4,400 available rooms.”
The available rooms come from small hotels, big hotels, and dormitels.
“We are also closely coordinating with the hotel sales and marketing association, as to the occupancy of our hotel accommodation in time for August,” Romero said.
The festival’s execom is expecting 180,000 tourists to come this month, with 90 percent local tourists and 10 percent will be coming from abroad.
In August last year, the city generated an arrival of 110,000 tourists while for this year, it is targeting to surpass this number to around 180,000 to 200,000.