CEBU CITY – Governor Gwendolyn Garcia has thanked President-elect Bongbong Marcos for naming her daughter, Liloan Mayor Maria Christina Frasco, as the next Tourism secretary.
Garcia
said Frasco, a lawyer and also the spokeswoman of Vice President-elect Sara
Duterte, can share Cebu’s post-pandemic initiatives in revitalizing the
country’s tourism industry.
“As
the governor of Cebu, I am very proud that the next Secretary of Tourism is a
Cebuana. This is such a huge vote of confidence…The initiatives and processes
that Cebu has been able to accomplish despite the challenges of the pandemic
and the calamity,” Garcia said.
She
said Marcos’ decision to appoint a Cebuana as Tourism secretary is such a
manifestation of faith to Cebu and a recognition of the fact that the province
is a tourism hub of the entire country.
She
underscored Frasco’s immersion in the province’s tourism programs during her
first term of office as governor in 2004, which gives the mayor ample knowledge
of the provincial government’s holistic view of tourism as a driver of the
local economy.
Garcia expressed confidence in Frasco’s capability to run the Tourism department, saying her experience in helping Cebu “on how we have been able to define our direction consistently and how we’ve been able to revive Cebu’s economy” amid the Covid-19 pandemic. (John Rey Saavedra)
