PIA Davao Region

D AVAO CITY- Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio personally thanked visiting Senator Sherwin Gatchalian, representing the Gatchalian family for sponsoring the Bakuna by the Sea Vaccination Site situated inside the family-owned  Watefront Insular Hotel Davao. Senator Gatchalian and Mayor Duterte-Carpio on Friday (Sept. 17) toured the vaccination site dubbed as the most beautiful vaccination site in the country as it is located inside a picturesque seaside garden. Bakuna by the Sea which started as a vaccination hub in June this year, has inoculated over 14,000 tourism industry workers in Davao City and the adjacent provinces. It was realized thru the partnership of the City Government of Davao, Waterfront Insular Hotel Davao and the tourism industry stakeholders led by the Davao Tourism Association (DATA). “I wanted to personally thank the Gatchalian family thru Senator Sherwin sa malaking tulong nila sa Davao City kasi yung ginawa nilang Bakuna by the Sea hindi basta basta yun, th...

DAVAO City, July 2 (PIA)—The vaccination roll out dubbed as “Bakuna by the Sea,” went on its third day with the objective of protecting the tourism workers from COVID-19, in the pursuit of the new normal and to start the reopening of the industry. GeneroseTecson, City Tourism Officer said the vaccination roll out started June 30 for the tourism sector in the location that is conducive to the theme which is the tent of the Waterfront Insular Hotel.   She thanked the management of the Waterfront Insular Hotel, for supporting the activity by sponsoring the logistics for the vaccination and also recognized the efforts of the Davao Tourism Association and other tourism associations, for providing the manpower, time, water and food to ensure that the vaccination roll out would proceed.  Tecson aimed to vaccinate 14,000 from the tourism sector and allied services. She recalled that as of June 30, more than five hundred tourism workers were vaccinated, 808 yesterday and 750 vac...