PTA and NYC will launch package tours for students

To further prop up domestic tourism, the Philippine Tourism Authority (PTA), in cooperation

with the National Youth Commission (NYC), will launch a student package tour "Barkadahan

sa Turismo" this month.

This is in view of the fact that the student populace is quite remarkable. The program aims to

educate the youth through affordable travel, enhancing their historical, cultural and ecological

awareness a well as touristoriented concerns.

Cognizant of the role of student-travelers in the development of domestic tourism, the PTA is

making its three properties "accessible" to the student market with special and pocket-friendly

rates.

PTA, infrastructure arm of the Department of Tourism, owns 10 entities.

Up for launching are the Banaue Barkadahan Package of three-day/two-night accommodation

and meals at the Banaue Hotel and Youth Hotel for as low as P1,000 net/pax; Pagsanjan

Barkadahan Package of overnight accommodation and meals at the Pagsanhan Garden Resort

for as low as P498 net/pax; and the Hundred Islands Barkadahan Package of overnight

accommodation and meals (inclusive of island hopping) at the Hundred Islands National Park for

as low as P580 net/pax.

Each package requires a minimum of 20 persons.

Invited to the launching program are student organizations, officers from the different colleges

and universities in the National Capital Region (NCR).