THE Lapu-Lapu City Government will start collecting P100 as environmental fee from all local and foreign tourists wishing to do water sports and recreational activities such as scuba diving, free diving, banana boat riding, jet skiing, sea-walker, parasailing, kayaking, island hopping and other similar activities on Wednesday, May 1, 2024.
Super Typhoon Rai smashed into the Philippines’ Mactan island in 2021, destroying coral and damaging property. But now the reefs have some new inhabitants for divers to enjoy.
Cebu, along with its metropolitan area, continue to live up to its decades-old moniker “Queen City of the South” with endless surprises that never fail to thrill wanderlusts and harvest prestigious awards in the process. With international travel in full swing, foreign tourists are flocking once more to bask in…
There is a lingering joke that the Lapu-Lapu, the Cebuano chieftain who first defied foreign incursion in the archipelago, is also the killer of the first recorded tourist Ferdinand Magellan. With the yearlong national observance of the quincentennial of the epic Magellan-Elcano circumnavigation of the world, public spotlight has been focused…