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A well-preserved natural and cultural environment that supports sustainable tourism, promotes heritage conservation and social equity, through healthy collaboration and data from the observatory.
by creating awareness and support capacity-building in sustainability and resiliency among tourism stakeholders
for a sustainable and resilient Batanes
in support of future decision and policy making
in the process of facilitating the exchange and comparison of information
that empowers and legitimizes the Ivatan’s control over its activities and management practices.
Workshop on Solid Waste Management
The United Nations World Tourism Organization(UNWTO) has identified carrying capacity to be a crucial part for sustainable tourism destination management.
An Executive Order Providing for Revised Guidelines and Protocols on the Re-opening of Tourism Industry of the Province Under the New Normal
The United Nations World Tourism Organization(UNWTO) has identified carrying capacity to be a crucial part for sustainable tourism destination management.
is Professor and former Dean of the U.P. Asian Institute of Tourism. He obtained his PhD from the University of Otago, New Zealand. His research interests include tourism policy and planning, as well as tourism education. His recent works and publications have examined tourism policy implementation, governance of post-disaster revitalization projects, tourism and hospitality education at the tertiary level, and cultural tourism.
earned her research doctorate in tourism management from the University of Waikato in New Zealand. Her thesis involved her living in Hongcun, Xidi and Nanping Villages in Anhui, China for approximately 6 months in seeking to examine the impact of tourism on residents and tourists in UNESCO World Heritage Sites. She helped establish the Raglan Monitoring Center in New Zealand. Mary Anne is currently the head of the Department of Hotel, Restaurant and Institution Management in the College of Home Economics.
is a graduate of BS Tourism at the UP Diliman Asian Institute of Tourism. She earned her certificates on Optimizing Productivity of Producers Organizations at the Wageningen University and Research Center in The Netherlands and Program Management for NGOs at the Ateneo Center for Continuing Education. She is a 2011 Research Fellow at the University of California- Irvine for the Institute for Money Technology and Financial Inclusion. Allerine is the Batanes Hospitality and Tourism Monitoring Center Research Associate and an independent program management consultant who has carried out various roles in the private and government sectors including the internationally-funded Philippine Microfinance Innovation Center for Resources and Alternatives, Department of Social Work and Development – Disaster Response Operations and Monitoring Information Center and Habitat for Humanity International – East and Southeast Asia Region Global Village Program.
is a full-time faculty member at the Institute of Civil Engineering in UP Diliman. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Biological and Environmental Science at Saitama University Japan. His research interests are water quality management, solid waste management, groundwater resource management, and water treatment. He was named one of the 100 Asian Scientists in 2016.
is a full-time faculty at the Department of Hotel, Restaurant and Institution Management in UP Diliman where she earned her undergraduate degree as well. She obtained her Executive Masters in Business Administration from SP Jain School of Global Management Singapore. Prior to joining the academe, she had over a decade of experience in the hospitality industry. She is now pursuing her PhD at the School of Urban and Regional Planning, UP Diliman.
is the Batanes Provincial Tourism Officer. She is a graduate student of Tourism Development and Management at the University of the Philippines Diliman where she also took her undergraduate degree, supervises a team of nine in carrying out the functions of her office.
is an instructor handling courses in tourism and hospitality management at the Batanes State College. She received her B.S from the same College and her Master’s from Philippine Women’s University. Ms. Batin, had been a practitioner in the hospitality Industry for 2 years and then landed a job at her alma mater in 2013. Serving as the chair of BSC’s Hospitality and Tourism Management Department, she has been designated as the Administrative Coordinator of the monitoring program. She is currently residing at Brgy Kayvaluganan Uyugan, Batanes.
is the Director of China - New Zealand Tourism Research Unit at the Waikato Management School. He has undertaken work for the UNWTO in China such as Jiangsu Province and Xishuangbanna Autonomous Prefecture that paved the way to their entering the UNWTO program. Chris spearheaded the Waikato Sustainable Tourism research program that monitors the impact of tourism in Raglan. He was rated in the top 0.5% global researchers in a PLoS One survey and ranked 9th out of more than 7,900 researchers in tourism management. Chris is the external adviser for the Batanes INSTO project.