WARNINGS HURT DAVAO (VIDEO)
MANILA,
FEBRUARY 18, 2012 (STANDARD) THE
Doña Remedios Trinidad Romualdez Medical foundation College of Nursing in
Tacloban City, Leyte has emerged as one of the top nursing schools in the
country.
It was named ninth top performing nursing school among 483 institutions in
the recently concluded Nursing Board exams in December 2011.
A graduate of the school, Euanne Cabillo Orellano of Tacloban City, placed
fifth among more than 22,000 nursing examinees. Her feat added to the long list
of nursing board exam placers from RTRMF.
The foundation's nursing school continues to banner its commitment to
quality and excellence in nursing education in the country after ranking sixth
in 2008, eighth in 2009, and ninth in 2010 and 2011 among the country's top
performing nursing schools.
At the helm of the institution are the members of the Romualdez family of
Leyte: Juliette Gomez Romualdez, chairperson; Benjamin Philip G. Romualdez, vice
chairman; and lawyer Ferdinand Martin G. Romualdez, president.
A much-lauded countryside development project of then Leyte Gov. Benjamin
"Kokoy" T. Romualdez in the early 1980s, the RTR Medical Foundation has produced
competent and highly trained medical and paramedical professionals for Leyte and
Samar.
Leyte First District Rep. Ferdinand Martin Romualdez also hailed the recent
achievement of two other best performing nursing schools in Leyte as he sent
congratulatory greeting to the faculty, staff, and dean of the RTRMF College of
Nursing, Dr. Socorro Salvacion Gasco.
Travel warnings adversely affected Davao tourism
THE travel advisories against Mindanao have been hurting tourism in Davao
City, where foreigners accounted for only 10 percent of all visitors last year,
an official said Friday.
"Some countries are very obedient to travel advisories," Davao City Tourism
Office head Jason Magnaye told the Manila Standard on the sidelines of the
National Tourism Statistics Conference 2012 in Manila.
Davao City has what it takes to become a premier tourist destination, but the
negative travel advisories against some areas as a result of violence or the
presence of insurgents or bandits have been hurting Davao, Magnaye says.
Some 730,000 people visited Davao City last year, but "90 percent of them
were local tourists and the rest were foreigners," he said.
In an attempt to attract more visitors, the city's tourism officials opened
an information center at the airport on Sept. 20 last year. The same day, the
city launched its Davao: Life is Here campaign.
Magnaye says his office plans to launch the new tagline on the national level
next month, so it will read "It's more fun in Davao because life is here." Macon Ramos-Araneta
IT'S MORE FUN IN DAVAO BECAUSE LIFE IS HERE!
Chief News Editor: Sol
Jose Vanzi
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