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NEXT MEETING

TUESDAY September 09

2 P.M. Sharp.

Palmera Garden Hotel & Beach Resort

Bangantalinga, Iba.

August 2008: The August Meeting was held at Rama Internationa Beach Resort in Botolan, our thanks to Roger & Marich Bound for the venue and the merinda supplied. Special guest was Ms. Elvie Medina, Elvie is a promotions specialist and is planning a special promotion of "SURF ZAMBALES"
to promote Zambales as the nearest surfing venue to Manila. Thsi is proposed for October 18 and will need the assistance of Members, it is expected to bring a large number of visitors for a festive weekend of Surfing, Rock Concerts and much more. PLEASE BE AT THE NEXT MEETING FOR MORE ON THIS. Also in attendance were representatives from the Provincial Tourism, Investments and Promotions Office, they also are most enthusiastic about the plans that Elvie has.

July Meeting was again held at Sajorda River Park, our thanks to Arch. Sajorda for the venue and merinda. This meeting saw a much better turn out of Members, there was a Report on the Presidents trip to Thailand, at the expense of the Provincial Government, to witness first hand the introduction of sustainable "ECO" tourism. This was a most interesting and enlightening report, apparently our Provincial Government is eager to start with something similar here. There was a report on Promotions and the web site, with again discussion on the ZROA "Zambales" brochure. Also a letter from Mr. Robert Allana of Damnit Clothing offering Souvenir Tee Shirts to all Members on a "Consignment Basis" You can contact Robert on 0916 788 6231 or check out His website at www.damnitclothing.co.nr. Next meeting will be on Thursday August 10 at Rama. More to be added when I receive a copy of the minutes.

June Meeting was held at Sajorda River Park, our thanks to Arch. Sajorda for the venue and merinda. Unfortunately it was a low turn out of Members. Please lets do better for the next meeting.

Special Report; Zambales Mango Festival and Domorokdok Festivals & Thailand Tourism Conference. Some photos are on the Photo Gallery
The Mango Festival, April 23 - 26, was a great success, our Booth, directly at the Entrance, was well decorated with our Banners Etc. Special thanks to Arch. Quintin Sajorda for the decoration items Etc. There was however a lack of support from Members manning the stand. The Sand sculpturing Competition, run and organized by ZROA was a great success and went very smoothly. Out thanks to the Members who worked hard to make it successful. It was also nice to see that ZROA Members cleaned all the Awards for "Best Landscaped Resorts in Zambales" with Mango Adventure and Leisure Farm taking the Top Honors with Dawal and Sajorda River Park making up the runners up, special awards also went to Palmera Garden and Rama International Beach Resorts, well done Members. Also our Committee Head of Promotions took out the Top honor with 1st Place in the Photo Contest.
The Domororokdok Festival in Botolan, May 3 & 4 was also highly successful. Hon. Mayor Yap, Mayor of Botolan and the Municipal Tourism Office again supplied scpace for the Promotion of ZROA. Thanks to Dr. Tito Doble of Ambay Botolan Beach Resort and the Staff of Rama for manning the stand.
Our President Arch. Quin Sajorda accompanied the Provincial Tourism Office on a trip to Thailand for a Tourism Confrence, nice to know that the Provincial Government conciders ZROA an actice participant in the Promotion of Tourism in Zambales. Our thanks to our Hon. Gov. Atty.Amor Deloso for the trip and experience. We will all be awaiting Arch. Sajorda's report at the June Meeting.

April 2008 The meeting was held at Megans Parisidio Beach Resort in Pundaquit, unfortuneatly our Host Vergie was not well and we all wish Her a speedy recovery, apologies were received from Dodo and Mark Ramos. There was discussion on Life guard training, the Sand Sculpturing Competion and the Landscaped Resorts Competion, all associated with the Mango Festival. There will be a more complete coverage and minutes of the meeting in a few days............

March 2008 The March meeting was held at Crystal Beach Resort in San Narciso. Our Thanks to the Ramos Family for the Venue and Merinda. Item of main concern is Life Guard Training, can Members supply participants for training in first week of April? All Zroa members are enjoined to send representatives to attend this training schedule on life saving by the RED CROSS. It will be held on the 1st week of April. Fee is P1,000.00. PLEASE SIGNIFY your intention before March 25 so the training workshop can be pushed through. Please contact Mark Ramos on 0920 797 2073 for details. All other items are in the Minutes of the Meeting, AVAILABLE HERE

February 2008. The meeting was held at Palmera Garden Hotel and Beach Resort in Iba. Our thanks to the Management and Staff for the venue and merinda. The main items of business discussion on ZROA running the Sand Sculpturing Competition to be held in conjunction with the Mango festival. A favorable reply was received from the Provincial DENR Office in regards to the lowering of environmental permit fees for ZROA Members exclusively. Discussion on spearheading major changes to Life saving training, sports promotion and mardigras type events for Zambales to raise awareness of the Resorts, feasibility studies are to be conducted. There was an application for Membership from Covelandia Beach Resort in Labrador Pangasinan, their reason to join is to promote their business by belonging to "Go ahead" groups and Associations, such as ZROA. We welcome them aboard. For a copy of the full minutes of the meeting meeting. CLICK HERE.

January 2008. The meeting was held at Sajorda River Park, in Iba. Our thanks to the Management and Staff for the venue and merinda.

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