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The Regional Development Council of Region X has unanimously passed a resolution endorsing and adopting the 1st Lumad Festival 2016.
The RDC-X Full Council passed Resolution No. 11 series of 2016, “Endorsing and Adopting the 1st Lumad Festival 2016” during its 108th Full Council meeting held at Grand Caprice Restaurant and Convention Center, Cagayan de Oro City 12 April 2016.
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Initiated by BusinessWeek Mindanao last September 24, 2015 during the grand opening of the National Tourism Week held in SM City Cagayan de Oro, the festival aims to promote peace and cultural understanding by showcasing the various cultures and traditions of its indigenous peoples (IPs) or Lumads of Northern Mindanao’s provinces, cities and municipalities through a dance competition on September 23-24, 2016 in Cagayan de Oro City
“We anticipate around 40-50 contingents from the five provinces, nine cities and 84 municipalities to compete and showcase their cultures and traditions to an estimated 100,000 to 150,000 foreign and domestic tourists through street dancing and ground tableaux,” said Catalino L. Chan III, Region X Tourism Director in his presentation to the council.
Earlier, the RDC-X Economic Development Committee during its 07 April 2016 meeting recommended the RDC its endorsement and support to encourage local government units to send their contingents to participate in the festival competition and for the region to adopt the Lumad Festival as an annual grand festival in Northern Mindanao.
In his presentation to the full council, Dir. Chan said among the policies of RDC-X as indicated in its physical framework plan, regional development plan and sector plans to facilitate and support all events and festivities geared towards promoting regional and local tourism to gain the benefits from tourism activities such as providing jobs for less-skilled workers, generating incremental income from tourists’ spending and eventually contributing to local and regional economic development.
“One of the proposed tourism activities to address this regional development policy is the conduct of regional and local festivals as a means of promoting the indigenous and local culture of Filipino people, especially in Northern Mindanao, hence DOT’s endorsement of the Lumad Festival,” he added.
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