Cebu Launches Activity Center to Raise Awareness on APEC Meetings

The provincial government of Cebu, the Philippine Information Agency (PIA), and Radio TV Malacañang (RTVM) launched on Tuesday the Cebu Activity Center to disseminate information to the grass roots regarding Cebu’s hosting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings.

“We are having this activity center to make the people understand what is APEC. What does APEC mean to us? We see the delegates coming. We see traffic, all sorts of news about APEC, but what really is the APEC?,” provincial information officer Ethel Natera said during the activity center’s opening at the Provincial Capitol here.

“For us to give you more information, we launched this activity center. This will run starting today (Tuesday) until September 12.”

Students, members of the media, and bloggers are welcome to come to the Cebu Activity Center, Natera said, adding that the center has Internet connections and other amenities.

The resource speakers during the open forum were Tourism Regional Director Rowena Montecillo, Trade and Industry Regional Director Asteria Caberte, and Assistant Secretary Lito Nadal of RTVM. Nadal is also the deputy director general for media relations of the APEC 2015 National Organizing Committee (NOC).

The discussion tackled Cebu’s traffic situation, peace and order, and efforts to promote the region as an investment and tourism destination.

The APEC 2015 NOC reported that as of Saturday, 54 of 87 meetings have been held. According to the committee, a total of 2,778 delegates have registered for the third Senior Officials’ Meeting and related meetings.

The APEC 2015 NOC has so far released 1,865 badges for the Cebu meetings. These badges identify participants in the various APEC-related activities. (PNA) SCS/PND/SSC