The Island Garden

 

Island Garden City of Samal The Motorkada sa Isla will jump-off at 7a.m. from Igacos City Hall grounds at Barangay Peñaplata and will proceed to Babak poblacion via Mambago B-Kinawitnon Road. Then, the Motorkada will navigate the national road along San Agustin and Mambago-A, and goes back to Barangay Peñaplata to converge at the Peñaplata Central Elementary School (PCES) grounds, the event area for the first onth revelries of VSI 2012. Joining the Motorkada are business establishments, private and civic organizations, and employees from the city government, the national government agencies, including the Armed Forces of the Philippines, the Philippine National Police and the Bureau of Fire Protection, among others. Contingents of drum beaters would also be joining the Motorkada and would be competing in the afternoon to give thundering beats and reverberating music to signal the start of the three-month long Visit Samal Island revelries. Immediately after the short opening ceremonies at the PCES grounds, cadets from the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) will showcase their grace in a Silent Drill to wow the spectators during the opening salvo. The island city’s tourism campaign package known as “Visit Samal Island 2012” which has the tagline “Where Life is Fun” is a marketing strategy which aims at significantly increasing tourist arrivals to Samal Island, and at making Samal Island as the destination-of-choice for both domestic and foreign tourist this summer and throughout the year. It has lined up a long menu of fun-filled events for tourist and visitors coming up the island to laze their summer starting April 21, 2012 up to July 15, 2012. Through an executive order, the city government of Island Garden City of Samal has set apart April, May June, July of 2012. Through activity is made in partnership with the private sector tourism stakeholders, the Samal City Resort Owners Association, with the Department of Tourism 11 managing the promotion of the event. Visit Samal Island 2012