Ecotourism Survey by CPSC ABET Students

Republic of the Philippines
Camiguin Province
Camiguin Polytechnic State College
TOUR 32 (Eco Tourism)

Summary of Interview

1. What is your concept of eco-tourism?
 It is a place that you can male the community [progressive because of the tourist spots
 Assess the environment
 It is about nature which is the source of all the humans, because nature is sacred, so we should show respect by keeping distance, honoring nature in treating it reverently.
 Eco tourism is an environmentally responsible travel like visiting to relatively undisturbed natural areas, enjoy and appreciate nature.
 Something that has concerned with the gift of nature, human activities and has something to do with nature.
 Is regarded as industries that increase the preservation and promotion of awareness in our ecology which also increase the wealth and job opportunities in an area.
 Small scale tourism, tourism run by local people, also low budget tourism.
 Guiding tourist and manage tourist spots.
 Tourist guides and operators who is concern more with the ecology or environment
 To travel to natural areas to experience rare and uniqueness or the environment.
 It is a kind of economic industry that camiguin have most.
 It is not only a way of preserving the nature but also a tourist attraction.
 A balance and friendly tourist place in terms of preserving its national patrimony.
 Preserving our environment it will enhance and attracts both local and foreign ones to visit our island province.
 It is a travel with harmony in nature.
 Preservation of ecosystem for tourist attraction.
 Somewhat more precisely, economist engage in systematic inquiring into the effects of time human activities which are grouped under three production, exchange and consumption, the nature and magnitude of these activities and their implications for individual and social welfare constitute the focus of economics and the policy prescription that economist make.
 Improved the economic activities of a place and living of the people at the same time preserving the gifts of nature.
 Deals with the interaction of people with their environment, in order to become successful, or to maintain survival and well-being of that particular place.
 A tourism which you can witness the beauty of a certain place at the same time helping the people in the place in terms of financial condition.
 It is ecology, more about environment and eco destination.
 A friendly life environment.
 A clean and lively environment.
 A concept for being a tourist spots rich and being a lush green environment.
 Nature based tourism like camiguin.
 Ecology, ecological tourism, tarveling or visiting a place or tourism area hwere nature is there assets not a casino or man made attraction.
 Ecological tourism.
 Is a kind of tourism where people travel in order to enjoy the beauty of nature without harming it.
 A kind of tourism which is in nature based.
 Environmental tourism, people come or visit a certain place because of its nature.
 Is studying about environment on how to maintain and develop it.


2. Have you been involved in any eco-tourism activity?
Fifteen respondents says yes and nineteen says no.

(Please share your experience)

Activities…
Mountain climbing (Hibok-Hibok)
Planting tress
Guiding
Cleaning
Tree planting
Coastal clean up
Tree planting
Preservation of scenic places
Beach clean up and seaweeds planting
Installed Binaliwan marine sanctuary
Tree planting
Coastal clean-up
Tree planting
Coastal cleaning and tree planting

Benefits
exercise your body and makes you body health
To protect from floods
Help for sustainable environment
Health preservation
Attracts tourist
* Help preserve our marine resources.
* Sustainable supply of marine resources.
*floods control
*Minimize garbage that floats in the sea.
Replace the lost trees due to floods
* to keep our surroundings and environment clean and green.

Disadvantage
The road to Itum is not good
Plants may occur when will be no more trees to protect it.
Some are uncooperative
Away from industrialization
* None
Happens only once a year.

Suggestions
Concrete the road
Don’t cut the trees so that there will no accidents may happens.
Every barangay should have trashcan in every highway
Encourage government employees for tree planting
Promote every time it is needed.
Continuous care of the tree
Funding is a must
* Control garbage dispatching in the seashore.
*really good to be implemented once a week or everyday when haivy rain or typhoon come.


3. What is the best feature of Camiguin Island? What makes Camiguin special from the rest of ecotourism destinations that will make you come back?
 Ardent hot spring makes Camiguin special, because of its natural hotness, relaxes your body
 Camiguin is more on a tourist spots which is mostly all of this are natural and unique and interesting that will make you back
 Camiguin Island is a nature based destination because of its unique places or tourist spots.
 Camiguin is full of wonders and rich of history.
 Camiguin island is such a wonderful island, it has almost everything that a man distress.
 Its simplicity, cleanliness and virginal structure that I’ve seen and observed in most eco tourist spots in camiguin.
 It’s nature. It is still green, friendly not too greedy people, women who likes flower.
 Food and hospitality
 Ardent , many tourist visit ardent both local and foreign
 Camiguin has all around tourist spots like hot springs, cold spring, waterfalls, historic site.
 Ardent hot spring and white island
 The best feature of Camiguin Island is the preserved beaches.
 Hospitable people, safe area and many tourist spots.
 Camiguin is an island of your dreams and happiness and the peaceful and friendly people were living. The different tourist attraction and destination were the other places don’t have just like hot spring, cold spring, soda water.
 Clean air, clean water, hospitable people and many beautiful tourist spots.
 People are accommodating and hospitable and peace and order.
 Dining resorts
 Its landscape terrain, volcanic attraction and its resources and tourist are safety for it is peaceful place.
 Peace and unity
 Cold spring
 Camiguin is known for the different tourist spots waterfalls, hot and cold spring, and beaches with white sand, green vegetation and hospitable.
 One of the enchanting as it is portrayed, an island paradise bestowed of natural wonders, affectionate people and an exciting and romantic air.
 Inexpensive and accessible land transportation. Environments are still preserving as to cleanliness and beauty.
 The beautiful and wonderful tourist spots, very nice and peaceful place as will as the beautiful and a kind people.
 Its breath-taking tourist spots. Camiguin is natural which makes it captivating and magical.
 A unique destination, a very natural place, friendly people, embedded of different beaches, falls, springs, and the specialty like chocolate.
 Its culture and virgin, clean place.
 Virgin environments which is clean and human friendly surroundings.
 It’ tourist spots.
 Mantigue, people are friendly, white island, ardent hot spring, lagoon in benoni, katibawasan, that are the best feature of camiguin.
 Ardent hot spring, mantigue island and our forest and marine resources are abundant.
 Mantigue, fresh air, ardent hot spring, katibawasan, santo niño cold spring, white island and mount hibok hibok.
 Ardent hot spring, woman are hospitable and beautiful.
 Mantigue, forest are not destroyed by illegal loggers.
 Ardent hot spring, all foods are fresh.
 Macao cold spring, the environmentof camiguin is very natural.
 Mantigue, natural resources are protected.
 Ardent.
 Mantigue, peace and order situation and all existing tourist spots.

4. What do you consider responsible tourism? How can you best support this kind of endeavor?
 Helping our island to be progressive
 Responsible tourism means money because tourism alone means business, so we must let them spend their money in times of travel. Share cooperation.
 Do not do activities that pollute the environment.
 It is how we respect the environment without destructing it because at the end we are also the one who suffers if we don’t give any concern.
 Avoid doing mess in the environment so that we can still use it for the next generation to come.
 Protect the gift of Mother Nature and a hospitable camiguinons.
 Awareness, concerned and devoted action in behalf of the people involved tourism which includes the dept. of tourism, the municipal officials and the residents themselves.
 Tourism that does not leave any traces. Tourist who respect private property in rural areas like they have to in a city
 Environmental friendly
 Maintain managing tourist spots in camiguin for the next generation. It gains more income.
 Know how to take care of the environment and take care their resort and know their limitations in constructing and the must know also their limitations.
 Preserving our environment clean and green.
 When the nature tourist spots were preserved and maintain.
 Tourist can go anywhere safely.
 Nature lover and know how to care on his nature or environment. Through practicing this kind of attitudes towards nature.
 Making the place safe from dangers of NPA’s
 Clean and orderly environment. Cooperates with rules and regulation as now to keep our environment clean.
 Keep it clean and develop technically to make it eye catching for the tourist to reminisce
 A place where in it can generate funds that will help government improved its place and government itself with the help of officials supportive of their function what is necessarily to be made for economic progress.
 Tourism to be a responsible one if we can maintain and develop it.
 Not throwing garbage anywhere.
 Preserve the beauty of the island through WOW, SIGA school in a garden
 The department of tourism.
 Improved its appearance without destroying its originality of a place.
 Those people have been interested to involved in any eco-tourism activity, participate in any eco-tourism exercises by exerting their efforts and time to support this kind of endeavor.
 Getting development at the same time preserving its beauty by becoming a responsible citizen and a responsible tourist.
 Can make us improve our selves also the community through loving our environment.
 A remarkable paradise is a product of responsible tourism. Everybody should train to cooperate as responsible residence.
 Considerate and promote good services as well as convenience and silent but alive place of happiness and leisure.
 Concern with environment and wildlife conserving to remain it’s natural pleasing. By being a nature lover and nature conscious and responsible one.
 Traveling with preserving the nature.
 By not throwing garbage anywhere while traveling.
 Proper management of waste disposal.
 Traveling without harming or making pollution to the environment, and enjoying while preserving.
 Promoting tourism while preserving the nature.
 Enjoying the place while protecting and preserving.

5. What do you consider environmentally sound eco-tourism practices. Can you site examples in this island?
 Barangay cleaning for cleanliness
 Using unleaded gasoline, and dispose their waste on biodegradable.
 Protection of marine resources, protection of the trees and other resources of the nature.
 Recycle all the discarded materials.
 Preservation of the beauty of nature.
 Coastal cleaning, cultivation of mangroves, and preservation of coral reef.
 Tourist resorts should employ local people, buy food locally –small resorts necessarily do so. Do not allow resorts with more than 12 rooms.
 Guitar or harana
 Mountain climbing, bird watching and scuba diving.
 Practices in the island were mountain climbing and watching.
 Abundance of trees in the green mountains.
 Clean water where people enjoy swimming since there are no factories around.
 Keep beaches clean, avoid throwing garbage anywhere even in canals or rivers for these will go down to beaches and destroy it.
 While riding on boats, deposits your waste materials to trash cans intended do not throw them over board.
 In marine park cantaan.
 Maintain clean and in our respectable homes/ offices, tree planting.
 Proper waste management. Segregate the waste and proper disposal
 Proper waste disposal
 Government officials who had preserving our natural resources such as our trees, and oceans , like tourism department and the students of eco-tourism.
 Tree planting, watching birds, dive site like itum, hibok hibok.
 Marine life protection like in cantaan.
 Mangrove protection at benoni.
 Seaweeds plantation and farming at Mantigue Island.
 Making sanctuary.
 Having a mountain trekking and planting trees.
 Disposed garbage properly, and planting trees.
 Managing the proper disposal of the garbage.
 Planting trees, and avoid illegal fishing.
 Disposing our garbage properly and recycle the non-biodegradable waste.
 Recycling.
 Planting trees.

6. What is special and truly authentic about the Camiguin culture?
• The language and how they value the beliefs of their ancestors.
• Their language, warm and friendly natives, exotic beauty of their damsels, sweet lanzones and drinking water and colorful festival.
• Fiestas, lanzones festival (do not commercialized like sinulog and atiatihan with school groups, not Pepsi and sunsilkgroups),panaad.
• Lanzones festival
• Celebrating lanzones festival and panaad.
• Kinamiguin language
• The camiguin dialect
• Hospitality
• Hospitality of the people and fiesta celebration.
• Hospitality
• Folk dancing , native rituals, and local dialect
• Kinamiguin language
• Camiguin dialect
• It’s still the paradise island….with conservative folks.
• Accommodating and hospitable
• The different activities such as fiesta, and lanzones festival which always be remembered every year and the variety show of pageant which show how beautiful and wonderful of a true camiguinons.
• Camiguin culture
• Camiguin is unique and a natural place.
• Very promising.
• Very harmonic.
• Harana and respecting the elders.
• Harana, and faith in God
• Fear in God.
• Language.
• Fiestas.
• Harana.
• The people are very hospitable.
• Harana.
• Harana.
• Respect to elders.

Why?
 Because some people from their places do not know on how to speak their own dialect just like here in camiguin mostly all people do not know on how to speak kinamiguin language so we should try to learn this.
 Because it is part of culture, so we must preserve it for the next years to come.
 Because it is very important for preservation and reflect ancestors culture.
 All of them are very important for preservation because they serve as a part of their culture which signifies uniqueness.
 To preserved indigenous culture.
 Because these all have a history about what, how, and camiguin live in the past past years.
 Kinamiguin language is only spoken in Camiguin.
 Because camiguin language now a days are diminished and our antiques are being sold by the owner people.
 Kinamiguin language is a unique in a place
 They are our heritage
 It is beautiful to hear yet few camiguinons speak
 Preserving kinamiguin language is a sign that we are truly native in our place.
 For identity
 Because this will ruined in how God made the island unique of all his creation.
 So that camiguin will have its own identity from other places
 We are unique because of this okkil art.
 Because kinamiguin language is different from others.
 Language and churches are best guide of knowing camiguinons.
 Because we are known through our language and language is a symbol of freedom.
 Because god will always be the center of our work.
 Because without God we cannot do anything.
 Simply because God first before all.

7. Do you segregate garbage?

Twenty eight says yes and ten says no

Where?
Most people segregate at home…

What do you do with discarded materials?
 Recycle and keep plastics for other purposes
 Recycle to make it useful
 Recycled the some materials.
 For non biodegradable ones, sold them and for plastic , use them again.
 Compostable, burnable, glass gets collected
 Composed
 Used for drinking bottle
 Softdrinkscan make as an ashtray
 Recycled
 Burned and recycled
 Proper disposal by keeping it in a garbage
 Decomposed to make fertilizer
 Put in a concrete septic tank
 Should be segregate from degradable and non degradable ones.
 The government collect our garbage
 Recycle and reuse
 Buried under the soil
 Bury or burn
 Disposed immediately.
 Bury it underground.
 Burn the biodegradable and stock the non biodegradable and sell to the buyers.
 Recycled and bury it underground.
 Biogegradable goes to the composed pit while plastic are thrown to the garbage truck, others are burn.
 Dump to the trash can.
 Throw to the garbage can.
 Disposed to the trash cans.
 Throw to the trashcan.
 Throw to the garbage truck.
 Throw to the trashcan.
 Throw to the trashcan which collected by the garbage truck.

8. What recycling projects can you suggest for Camiguin’s solid waste management?
 Recycled
 Segregate the garbage, sell it.
 Paper
 Landfill for burnable stuff, private collectors for metal and glass.
 Composting
 Recycling
 softdrinkscan and plastic bottle
 Waste segregation receptacle
 Waste segregation receptacle
 Cans can be used as flower pots.
 biotech’s
 machine use to recycle or convert into other product
 simple but usable
 paper mill factory
 Plastic wrapper make as a trash bags and baskets.
 Decorating cans and bottle
 Recycling cans and bottles
 Separating garbage.
 Composting.

Why and How?
 Because it is important after it recycled it can be used as a fertilizer.
 To gain income
 Paper is very important in writing and for making reading materials it can be recycled by paper industries.
 Make as home decorations or for water stock.
 By providing receptacles for degradable and non biodegradable wastes.
 Cans used as flower pots.
 Economic value
 Plastic cellophanes is a nui8sance that involve dirty surroundings and damageable to our pastured animals in their intakes
 The governance take a look whatever possible solutions that biotech’s can be realize
 Plastic cellophanes can be recycled like soap.
 Can be used daily through hard manipulation
 Marketable and there is available waste paper around
 To sustain and increase income of the people by cooperating with each other.
 By collecting cans and bottles and using other decorations.
 Because there are waste that can be recycled, and can be a fertilizer.
 Composting and make it as a fertilizer.
 Unused plastics make it a lantern.
 Composting and make a fertilizer.
 Make as a personal ornamental.
 Make solid waste as a home ornamentals.
 Dig a hole and throw all the biodegradable materials.

8. How do you get involved with eco-tourism activities?
Mostly are involved in community activities

What type of services:
 Served the tourist by guiding them to the place that they want to go or we may call it tour guide.
 Planting and cleaning
 Coastal cleaning and inviting our relatives from local and foreign places to visit camiguin.
 Cleaning together with other barangay officials.
 Cleaning and prioritize getting plastics, bottle and can.
 Proper sanitation, coastal clean up.
 Cleaning of seashore and tree planting
 Cleaning coastal area and segregation of garbage.
 Tree planting and cleaning of seashore
 Transportation business
 By means of voluntarism
 Tree planting
 Any one can be involved in eco tourism projects in all aspects as long as you love environments.
 Educating the children for proper disposal of waste.
 WOW and tree planting
 Coordinate some vendors about the activities of eco tourism.
 Information or nature gifts preservation.
 Cleaning every barangays as will as beautification of our streets.
 Seminars and symposiums.
 Tree planting at bukidnon.
 Donations.
 Barangay projects.
 Training and seminars
 Protecting marine sanctuary.
 Giving money as a response to any eco tourism activities.
 Planting plants and flowers.
 Bringing back the garbage and dump to compost pit.
 Participate whatever activities.
 Used leaves of banana as plates

9. How do we make Camiguin Eco-tourism friendly? Please write down specific suggestions? (Use back page for more
Suggestions)

Suggestions for Improvement
Ardent Hot Spring
1. Maintain the cleanliness
2. Maintain renovation and additional cottages, needs beautify to the surroundings.
3. Put more cottages and swimming pools.
4. Maintain the trees around the spring
5. Improved the pool and plant flowers
6. Use of garbage can and planting flowering plants
7. Improved the beautification of the surroundings, maintain cleanliness of the place specially the pool.
8. Make a botanical garden.
9. Make a soda water swimming pool.
10. Plant more flowers.

Sto. Niño Cold Spring
1. Concrete the road
2. Planting more flowery plants & used of garbage cans
3. Improved infrastructure and facilities and plant more flowers.
4. Put a restobar or restaurant
5. Building a swimming pools
6. Improved the bridges and beautification of the place to have an orderly environment.
7. Improved the place regarding cleanliness and sanitation.
8. make a lodging house, more cottages, improve the landscaping, and plant more flowers around.

Macao Cold Spring
1. Maintain cleaning specially to the foliage area.

White island
1. Preserve the white island.
2. It should have stable maintenance to clean the area and it should have a trashcan at least three or four.
3. Free small cottages for the tourist
4. Improved and make it more attractive to the tourist.
5. make an artificial shade by biodegradable products like leaves of coconuts.

Mantigue
1. Made more cottages and enough supply of water.
2. Cleanliness of the whole island should be maintained free from flies and other disease carrying insects, and plastic – free.
3. Discipline the people to not throw their garbage in the sea and have toilet in every houses
4. Observed cleanliness, avoid hunting, illegal fishing, dynamite and poisoning.
5. Relocate the people.
6. relocate the dwellers and make more cottages.
7. Create or find a way to have a water supply.

Pamonglo spring
1. Clean up the entire surroundings; improve the features of the cottages, shades that surround the area.
2. Develop more to make it beautiful.

Develop separate hiking tracks and mountain bike tracks between tourist spots and signs all along the way.
1. The DA should encourage and help to build up a more diversified agriculture.
2. Strict zoning into four zones: commercial, residential, agricultural, and forest. No non farmers’ residences in agricultural and forest zones.
3. Encourage woman to plant flowers.
All beach resorts
1. Build picnic huts for picnic guest only

The entire island
1. Plant trees
2. Develop more public swimming pools, do not allow private ones.

Saay
1. concrete the roads and put beautiful cottages

Tuasan falls
1. Improved the road to avoid accidents.

Katibawasan falls
1. improved the road and improved tourist facilities
2. Concrete roads, expansions of falls area, tourist resting place in the area.
3. Follow rules and policy regarding picnicking.
4. Preserve the trees and other natural gifts.

Old church, Kota of Guinsiliban
1. Beautify its surroundings


Hibok-hibok volcano
1. Plant more trees to have environmental friendly appear

Binaliwan marine sanctuary dive site
1. Make cottages and dive shops

Lagoon
1. planting Talisay trees around the lagoon