The Department of Science and Technology in Eastern Visayas is strengthening the seven-year-old Eastern Visayas Food Innovation Center to cope with changing and stringent market demand.
The City Tourism Operations Office in Davao said the economic outlook is well on its way to recovery as the city's first five-star Marco Polo hotel has promised to reopen this year.
Kidapawan City has begun providing free tests to residents who manifest symptoms of the mosquito-borne disease amid the spike in dengue cases in the province.
Tourism businesses in Bacolod and Negros Occidental are encouraged to obtain accreditation in order to be formally recognized for meeting basic operating standards.