Tourism

11 places and 5 yearly events, as the municipality's own documents record them: what each is, where it is, and which are still plans.

The figures that measure tourism — arrivals, revenue, rooms — are not in the documents this site is built from. Each has its place on this page, and none is filled in with a guess.

7
places listed as established
4
proposed sites
5
yearly events
332.48
hectares under strict protection

The places

Listed as established

The establishments the profile lists under its tourism potentials, and the museum the tourism plan photographs.

Proposed

Listed in the profile as proposed tourism sites, or named in its programme for improvement and development.

Yearly events

The events the profile lists under its tourism potentials.

Food

The food the profile and its programmes name.

Delicacies

  • PatopatRice cakes cooked in banana-leaf wrappers, as the festival's photographs show them: the centre of the Patopat Festival in Banbanaal.

Products

  • Banana productsOne Town One Product
  • Soya beansAlternative One Town One Product

Cafes and diners

  • Moon Cafe by ZephPoblacion
  • Santi's DinerCasilagan Sur

Land and protection

332.48 hectares of the municipality are a strict protection zone under the National Integrated Protected Areas System — 13.96% of its 2,381.33 hectares.

  1. Alienable and disposable1,670.1970.14%
  2. Forestland378.6615.90%
  3. Protected area332.4813.96%
Each bar is a share of the municipality's 2,381.33 hectares, as classified in the profile (MPDC Office, 2023). The profile prints forestland as 15.19%; 378.66 of 2,381.33 is 15.90%, a transposed digit.

Environmental programmes

  • Solid Waste Management Program
  • National Greening Program
  • Information and Education Campaign
  • May Pera sa Basura Program (Hollowblocks and Tiles Making)
  • Protected Area Conservation
  • Integrated Social Forestry Program

Tourism programmes

The tourism programmes in the profile's current programmes, and the four places it names for improvement and development.

  • Capability Building Program for Stakeholders
  • Product Development
  • Marketing and Promotion
  • Municipal Museum
  • Crafting of Municipal Tourism Plan
  • Adventure Site Validation, Farm-Tourism, Identification Mapping
  • Historical Site, Heritage and Arts Mapping
  • Tourism Site Marker and Signages
  • Establishment of Museum Pambata

Improvement and development

  • Baracbac Eco Forest Park, Elefante
  • Quin Gumabot Falls, Lopez
  • Binnuyog Eco-Agri-Park, Bagbagotot
  • Tumayaw Village

In the municipality's direction

  • Preservation of natural resources and development of eco-cultural tourism potentials.Mission
  • Develop Possible Tourism Potential to increase economic activity; andObjectives
  • Promote community- based tourism initiatives that empower local communities;Strategies
  • Development of Tourism PotentialsInvestment programme

Not yet in the documents

  • Tourist arrivals, domestic and foreign, for the last three to five years.
  • Revenue from tourism.
  • Visitor counts for each site.
  • The register of accredited and registered accommodation: hotels, resorts, inns and pension houses, homestays, transient houses.
  • The number of food businesses.
  • The dates of the yearly events.

Sources

  • Banayoyo Socio-Economic and Physical Profile, Tourism Potentials, 2023.
  • Banayoyo Socio-Economic and Physical Profile, Current Programs, 2023.
  • Municipal tourism plan, photographs.
  • Land classification: MPDC Office, 2023.
  • The kinds are this site's, read off each place's name; the Tourism Office has not classified them.