Two Long Week-ends for Tourism in August

Tagbilaran City (PIA) — Local and foreign tourists will have a hip time booking in advance for their most wanted Bohol countryside tours with three days of uninterrupted fun as the country sees two long weekends in August.

Tourists and even workers and students would find that the first three days of fun starts on August 21, Friday.

August 21 is Ninoy Aquino Day and has been declared as a special non-working day in the country.

It is also customary for workers and students to rest on the weekends that Saturdays and Sundays have been generally understood as short vacations.

The week after, another long holiday happens and its starts on a Saturday.

By August 31, the country’s workers and students take a pause again as the country commemorates National Heroes’ Day, which happens this year on a Monday.

August 31 has also been declared a regular holiday, one among the ten which the proclamation included.

With these two holidays, in fact, tourists who pick on going to Panglao but couldn’t get on with the long holidays can also come in on the 28th, which is a Friday.

August 28 is the town feast day as the parishioners would be celebrating Saint Augustine’s feast.

That same day, a street dancing competition also takes on the festival beat as dance contingents featuring the town barangays take on the streets in an explosive display of grace, color, and traditions.

Panglao’s festive street dancing and feast day billed sa Hudyaka sa Panglao, which has been a certified tourism drawer, also showcases the local reports and tourism establishments sponsoring and paying for the financial needs of practices, lavish costumes and props and choreographers stiff fees. (rmn/rac/PIA-7/Bohol)