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By Rey Anthony Chiu

  Cascading skills for tourism stakeholders in communities, the Bohol Tourism Office (BTO) in cooperation with Kahugpungan sa mga Bol-anong Guides Inc. (KABOG) equipped local tour guides of Ubay via a two day tooling workshop held here, September 2-3.

  The workshop called Community Tour Guide Training was at the Ubay Agri-Park Information and Technology Services Center of the Philippine Carabao Center of the Ubay Stock Farm in Lomangog Ubay town.

  In the spirit of social responsibility, KABOG is giving back to the community the blessings of tourism and its potential to spur economic activity in the rural areas especially in the farming communities of Ubay, Babog member Christopher Boncales said.

  Participating in the training were Magsasaka Siyentistas, Farmer’s Information Technology and Services and representatives of local tour operators who earlier intimated their desire to learn frontline operations from government authorities and KABOG practicing tour guides.

  The training workshop included among others the Bohol Tourism Situationer, Communication Skills Development, the portrait of a Tour Guide, front line service protocols, practical tour guiding techniques, commandments in tour guiding and design and itinerary preparation.

  The training also includes mock tours, incident dramatizations and field-works to allow locals the full appraisal of the tourism potentials in their vicinity, says KABOG’s Roy Ometer, training designer.

  We believe that by lending expert support to communities, we can also assist them in shaping people’s mindset and community attitudes to the good things that tourism brings about, says Josephine Cabarrus, BTO officer in Charge.

  The Capitol BTO tour guide pool includes government based and private freelance tour-guides belonging to the KABOG.

  Ubay community tourism tooling include BTO’s Chito Vaño, GO’s Christopher Boncales, Philippine Information Agency’s Rey Anthony Chiu, First Consolidate Bank training officer Roy Ometer and Inland Ways Tour Transport Operator and tour guide Nerissa Caong.

  Also assisting the Capitol project is Lugod Transport Services.

Aside from assisting and capacitating tourist stakeholder through skills trainings, BTO and KABOG has also been actively assisting Capitol in their tour assistance requirements, usually with study groups, lakbay aral and its international and national VIPs.

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