Open our eyes. Will a tourist from Australia, US, EU or Latin America, come to Albay for the Puro Blvd? Jesus Christ, they will come here for the only major city of the Philippines that has a beachfront right beside its commercial centre. Will they come here for those Your Ugliness buildings? or for the trees of Lignon or the biodiversity of the Mayon ATV route. Check your heart beat. Those who equate development with the tall buildings and the plentiful cars on the streets should have mental checkup. Those are just appearances - what is important is only 5 mothers died when giving birth, college graduates have risen from 34,000 to 188,000, NAT has leapfrogged from No. 177 to No. 19. I will oppose any further depletion of the Legazpi natural beachfront - the beach was made by God for everyone. I can go for an Atlantic City-type beachfront but nothing more. Read my lips: no more desecrating nature for the sake of rich people. The poor need to enjoy the beach where their marginal welfare curve and marginal return curve are not diminishing but rising. That was the message of Rifai UNWTO Head - rest and recreation is not just a basic need, it is a human right. Those who wish to spur a tourism boom should have their hearts in the right places.
Posted on: Tue, 27 May 2014 08:43:21 +0000
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