Cebu Midtown Hotel Journal

Cebu applies lessons learned from ASEAN Summit

2007-08-24T11:11:00.000+08:00

Following the 12^th ASEAN Summit held last January, the local government of Cebu and members of the business sector were able to pin down possible areas for improvement in the city's capacity to accommodate huge arrivals of foreign and local visitors.

The summit, which has since become a litmus test for Cebu tourism, contributed substantially to the 20 percent increase of Cebu visitors recorded for the first half of the year. It cast a spotlight on Cebu. And with visitor arrivals seen to rise in the coming months, the major stakeholders of Cebu tourism set their eyes on streamlining the operations of vital tourism services.

Cebu Midtown Hotel, which positions itself alongside four-star, business-class hotels, vows to give a comfortable and privileged stay to Cebu visitors, be they here for business or vacation. Towering over the Fuente Osmena, the Cebu Midtown Hotel boasts of a strategic location for Guests of diverse interests. This hotel in Cebu caters both to travelers and businessmen alike, with facilities and services that blend the ethos of business and relaxation.

Among the Cebu Midtown Hotel attractions are the chic and exclusive poolside, bars, and restaurants in its hotel in Cebu. It likewise has a Grand Ballroom that sits up to 800 people. Hotel accommodations and services are similarly set in a grand scale, with the in-house sauna and massage amenities, tour guide availability, and hotel-to-airport transportation service.

On the accessibility end of the Cebu tourism industry, the stakeholders identified the limited access of target visitors to direct flights to Cebu as one of the chinks in Cebu travel pipeline. There are currently a maximum of five flights a week to Cebu from Japan, a country that has the highest number of tourist arrivals in Cebu.

Tourism Secretary Joseph Ace Durano, in a response to the issue raised, told the Cebu stakeholders that the Philippine Airlines will launch this year its Osaka-Cebu flight, in addition to the planned increase on capacity of Cebu Pacific flights to and from other key Asian cities.

Cebu Pacific boosts its capacity by about 20 percent on flights servicing Kuala Lumpur, in anticipation of Malaysia's independence day celebrations that is expected to pour in Guests to the Philippines afterwards.

Cebu tour operators encourage good news; we agree!

2007-06-21T11:49:00.000+08:00

During the Cebu Business Month ASEAN Tourism Congress held in early June 2007, the Cebu Association of Tour Operators (CATO) called for Philippine media to give more prominence to positive tourism developments in the country, focusing on promoting Cebu hotels, attractions, and hot spots.

The Cebu Midtown Hotel in Cebu couldn't agree more with CATO spokesperson Alice Queblatin, as well as Lydia Castillo, who encouraged national dailies to project a good image of the country instead of reporting excessively on celebrity gossip and crime.
We at this budget hotel in Cebu strive to meet the standards that Castillo identified as noteworthy for news: promotes positive Filipino values, emphasizes tourist destinations, and is a good representative of Philippine culture. We enjoin all other Cebu hotels to join the call to give positive Cebu tourism news prominence in mainstream media.

Resource: Sun Star Cebu

The Cebu Midtown Hotel celebrates Holy Week

2007-03-26T11:42:00.000+08:00

Celebrate a spectacular Cebuano summer with us at the Cebu Midtown Hotel, a comfortable business hotel in Cebu that offers unbeatable value and location! Whatever plans you may have for the summer, the Cebu Midtown promises to be a cozy and practically located Cebu hotel for you.

This summer, celebrate Holy Week at the Cebu Midtown! Thousands of locals and tourists from all over the world regularly converge in Cebu for the observance of the Roman Catholic period of worship known as Holy Week. Let this hotel in Cebu be your home base as you participate in many of the rituals and festivities that highlight this weeklong observance of the passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, in whom 80% of the nation believe as the Son of God.

From the Cebu Midtown Hotel in Cebu, one may proceed to the historic Basilica Minore de Santo Nino. A highlight of the Basilica Minore de Santo Nino is the oldest religious relic in the Philippines, a statue of the Child Jesus. This statue was given by world-famous explorer Ferdinand Magellan to Cebu's Queen Juana, who, together with her husband and several natives, converted to Christianity in the 1700s with the visit of Magellan to the Cebuano shores.

You may also choose to visit the Cross of Magellan in Mactan Island from our lovely business hotel in Cebu. The Cross of Magellan is housed in a small chapel, and many believe the original cross is encased inside the large wooden cross that is now the central focal point of the chapel's classically designed interior.

Observing Holy Week in Cebu isn't a difficult thing to do, what with the parades, senakulos, and whatnot. With the Cebu Midtown Hotel's location along Fuente Osmena, one of Cebu City's most enduring watering holes and centers of business and commerce, you'll be in the heart of it all!

Welcome to Cebu Midtown Journal

2007-03-16T14:43:00.001+08:00

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