15th Regional Travel Fair in Tuguegarao City showcases the cultural and natural treasures of northeastern Luzon

The fifteenth Regional Journey Truthful (RTF), organized by the Tourism Promotions Board (TPB) Philippines, concluded on a excessive observe in Tuguegarao Metropolis, Cagayan, reaching spectacular outcomes with PHP 116.4 million generated in gross sales leads and PHP 7.1 million in finalized negotiated gross sales. Happening from August 15 to 17, 2025, the occasion served as a vibrant platform for collaboration, bringing collectively a various mixture of private and non-private tourism stakeholders. Attendees participated in immersive familiarization excursions, engaged in purposeful enterprise networking periods, and interacted with shoppers, creating lasting partnerships and fostering the expansion of the Philippine journey business.

TPB officers Arnold T. Gonzales, Marivic M. Sevilla, and Cesar R. Villanueva, with Division of Tourism (DOT) Area II Director Dr. Troy Alexander Miano, DOT Area XI Assistant Director Judy Colaljo, and DOT Area XII Assistant Director Armin Hautea on the opening of the patron honest.

The Regional Tourism Discussion board (RTF) performed a pivotal function as a dynamic platform that actively promoted the distinctive vacationer sights, cultural heritage, and pure landscapes of the provinces in Area II, particularly Batanes, Cagayan, Isabela, Nueva Vizcaya, and Quirino. By collaborative efforts, the RTF fostered regional partnerships, showcased native merchandise and festivals, and contributed to the expansion of tourism in these areas.

“Bringing the fifteenth Regional Journey Truthful to Tuguegarao demonstrates our dedication to showcase the nation’s gorgeous locations and to foster the expansion of home tourism,” mentioned TPB Chief Working Officer Maria Margarita Montemayor Nograles. “Cagayan Valley’s traditions and breathtaking landscapes provide vacationers a really immersive expertise, and the RTF was a venue for us to attach native tourism stakeholders with a broader market. It’s by these strategic engagements that we construct momentum in making intra-country tourism extra seen.”

Participants during the B2B sessions at the Pulsar Hotel and Convention Center, where buyers and sellers formed meaningful business exchanges and partnerships. — Members throughout the B2B periods on the Pulsar Lodge and Conference Middle, the place consumers and sellers shaped significant enterprise exchanges and partnerships.

The business-to-business (B2B) periods, held on August 15 on the Pulsar Lodge and Conference Middle, attracted 50 consumers and 53 sellers or exhibitors from numerous sectors, leading to over 1,400 scheduled enterprise appointments. These periods served as a platform for regional tour operators, journey companies, lodging suppliers, and representatives from native authorities tourism workplaces to determine partnerships. Members launched rigorously curated journey packages and companies geared toward enhancing Area II’s inbound tourism and driving financial improvement within the space. Notably, the occasion was graced by Cagayan Governor Edgar Aglipay, whose presence on the B2B opening underscored the provincial authorities’s dedication to supporting and selling the expansion of the native tourism business.

Fair attendees enjoy a wide variety of domestic tour packages. — Truthful attendees get pleasure from all kinds of home tour packages.

In the meantime, the business-to-consumer (B2C) honest held at Robinsons Tuguegarao on August 16–17 attracted roughly 2,500 guests over the two-day occasion. Attendees took benefit of unique reductions on quite a lot of journey packages, airline tickets, and lodge lodging, in addition to alternatives to buy domestically made crafts and specialty merchandise from the area. The honest’s opening ceremony featured notable company, together with Division of Tourism (DOT) Area II Director Dr. Troy Alexander Miano, DOT Area XI Assistant Director Judy Colaljo, DOT Area XII Assistant Director Armin Hautea, together with Tourism Promotions Board (TPB) officers Arnold T. Gonzales, Marivic M. Sevilla, and Cesar R. Villanueva, who every delivered remarks emphasizing the importance of tourism in regional improvement.

All through the honest, guests engaged in interactive actions comparable to Journey Bingo, which inspired participation and rewarded winners with numerous prizes. There have been additionally partaking displays and exhibitions from quite a few DOT regional workplaces, showcasing distinctive vacationer locations and cultural highlights from throughout the nation. A number of sponsors supported the occasion with informative cubicles and product demonstrations, additional enriching the honest’s environment. Moreover, a sequence of insightful talks had been held, together with periods targeted on ladies empowerment within the tourism business, highlighting success tales and mentorship alternatives, in addition to discussions on catastrophe preparedness, providing sensible methods and sharing greatest practices for making certain secure and resilient tourism operations.

Participants join the post-RTF tours, which include the Callao Cave in Peñablanca, Cagayan. They explore the different chambers, mineral formations, and the chapel illuminated by the skylight. — Members be a part of the post-RTF excursions, which embody the Callao Collapse Peñablanca, Cagayan. They discover the completely different chambers, mineral formations, and the chapel illuminated by the skylight.

Curated excursions, organized alongside the formal periods, supplied delegates to the fifteenth RTF with a fascinating exploration of Tuguegarao Metropolis and the broader Cagayan Valley. Members trekked by the well-known Callao Cave — a famend pure web site with historic limestone chambers and historic archaeological websites — and cruised the scenic Pinacanauan River, a hub for ecotourism and birding. Moreover, the itinerary included visits to essential historic websites, together with the Spanish-era Horno Ruins, important for its contribution to the area’s colonial legacy, and the Cagayan Museum, the place artifacts, reveals, and native artwork spotlight the area’s ethnographic heritage. The excursions completed in Ilagan Metropolis, Isabela, the place delegates noticed sustainable tourism efforts, together with packages for community-managed eco-parks and historic tunnels just like the Ilagan Japanese Tunnel, all reinforcing greatest practices in eco-tourism and native empowerment.

The success of the fifteenth Regional Journey Truthful (RTF) in Tuguegarao Metropolis was made doable by the collaboration of the Division of Tourism Area II, the Province of Cagayan, Tuguegarao Metropolis, Ilagan Metropolis, and companions within the personal sector, notably Philippine Airways, Cebu Pacific, 2GO, and Robinsons Tuguegarao. Their mixed help supplied a sturdy mixture of tourism promotion and on-the-ground logistical help, enriching the guests’ expertise.

Wanting forward, the Tourism Promotions Board (TPB) publicizes the subsequent Regional Journey Truthful will probably be held in Puerto Princesa, Palawan, on November 14–16, 2025. Palawan gives not solely breathtaking seascapes—such because the UNESCO-listed Puerto Princesa Subterranean River Nationwide Park—but in addition a residing laboratory for conservation and sustainable tourism. The upcoming RTF goals to additional join journey professionals and spotlight regional websites, selling environmental stewardship and community-based tourism.