Final Book Chapter 4.the Redevelopment of the Pioneering Wake Park of the Philippines

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EL NUEVO LAGO DE ORO

THE REDEVELOPMENT OF THE PIONEERING WAKEBOARD PARK AND RECREATION CENTER

Chapter IV PROJECT PROFILE AND ANALYSIS

4.1 Project Background

Sports tourism is the specific travel outside of the usual

environment for either passive or active involvement in competitive

sport where sports is the main or prime motivational reason for travel

and the touristic or leisure element may act to reinforce the overall

experience. (What is Sports Tourism, 2010) It is also the fast growing

niche in the tourism market. Sports marketing and sports management

has two broad categories of products namely the sports participation

travel and sports spectatoral travel. Wakeboarding, considered to be an

extreme water sport, played a big part in the evolution and

development of sports tourism in the country. Lago de Oro, as the very

first promoter of wakeboarding in the Philippines, should also lead and

be a good example for the other wakeboarding parks that are being

built today.

Lago de Oro and Beach Club in Calatagan, Batangas is the

home of the first cable wakeboarding park in the Philippines. It gives

their customers the opportunity to try the different extreme watersports

such as wakeboarding, knee boarding, waterskiing on their man-made

lake. There are two lakes with two different cable systems used. The

one is the Rixen Easy Start for the beginners and the other is the Rixen

Cableways Systems for the professional riders. There are also other

recreational facilities that can be enjoyed like the swimming pool,


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playground, volleyball, basketball, billiards, and darts. People can be

exposed to nature and animals for they have a view of the South China

Sea where they can ride and eat on the floating huts (balsa) or go on

fishing and site seeing on the small boats. They also have carabao

rides, sheep farm and oyster farm. They also serve spa and sauna

services and facilities. Balibago in Calatagan, Batangas has been the

top tourist destination because of the famous wakeboarding park. They

dont only boosts the tourism industry of the municipality of

Calatagan, but also helped even the simple citizens of the place such as

the fishermen and other to have decent jobs in a well-rounded place.

(Lago de Oro Beach Club, 2012)

To further improve and make the Philippines pioneering wake

park still number one, a redevelopment of its cable wake park and

resort has to be done. El Nuevo Lago de Oro will be an improved and

world-class design. It will not only be a home of the first cable wake

park but would also be the first most eco-friendly and innovative

watersports park and resort in the Philippines. It will incorporate the

different green technologies such as solar panels and rainwater

collection systems to reduce the use of electricity power and water

supply. To even more improve the existing utilities like the 2

Caterpillar gensets and the biodiesel and continue to use the sewage

treatment plant where everything is filtered and reused as toilet flush

and to water the plants.


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4.2 Profile of the Client

The client of this project is primarily the Italian major

shareholder of Lago de Oro, Frank and the Australian minor

shareholder, Colin Sauvarin. He is also known as Croc by the whole

management of Lago de Oro. Frank was also the designer of the wake

park and resort. According to his partner, Colin, Frank was a great

designer in the making. Frank loves Italian Cuisine thats why the

menus of the restaurant were Italian foods, but there are also Filipino

foods. He even bought an Italian oven for the restaurant. For him also,

Mediterranean motif is beautiful. Their concern for the environment

made them to consider and use the different technologies that could

lessen the resorts energy consumption. They also promote recycling

and reusing. During my interview with them Colin said that everything

must be recycled, if not, it will be disposed to the junkshops.

They have become a part of the sports tourism history in the

country for they were the real pioneers of wakeboarding in the country.

Their idea to bring extreme watersports in the country contributed

much most especially to the tourism industry of Calatagan, Batangas.

4.3 Mission and Vision

Mission

Lago de Oro has no formal and written mission and vision but I

was able to ask one of the share-holder of the resort during my

interview with them. According to him, one of their priorities is to train


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their staff for them to be able to work overseas. He said that their

former pastry cook was given a chance to work in Singapore and they

were proud of it because it came from their hands. Giving job

opportunities and well training is something that they do for their

community.

Another was to provide a place where families and friends can

get together and to strengthen their bonds. He told me a story that

theres an orphanage in Tagaytay where foreigners who wants to adopt

usually go to. Theres a rule that anyone who will adopt will not be

able to go out of the country for three days. Those days are allotted to

have a quality and bonding time with the child. He said that Lago de

Oro was one of the places where these people go to for its been a nice

place to for families and other relationships.

Vision

Their vision is to be the home of the most famous eco-friendly

wake park and resort in the Philippines that both local and international

tourists shall go to.

4.4 Profile of Users

Tourists, both local and foreign, and watersports enthusiast

are the projected users of El Nuevo Lago de Oro. Careful consideration


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ofthe users behavioral analysis shall be in place to be able to create an

efficient user-based design configuration.

Tourists (Local and Foreign)

Based from the Philippines Department of Tourism, a total of

1,497,851 visitors came to the country from January to April 2012, an

increase of 14.61% over the previous years volume of 1,306,944 for

the same period. The month of April recorded 349,779 visitors, an

increase of 10.19% against its 317,443 arrivals for the same month a

year ago.

Korea lead all other markets with a record of 330,343 arrivals

with a share of 22.05% to total visitor inflow while U.S. market

ranked second as it accounted for 16.02% of the total traffic. This

market had an increase of 4.70% with 239,978 arrivals compared to its

contribution of 229,200 arrivals last year.

The visitors from Japan accounted the third biggest arrival

count of 137,984 for a share of 9.21% to the visitor volume. The

China market supplied 123,262 as the fourth biggest inbound visitors

to the country and visitors from Taiwan likewise posted a two-digit

growth of 34.51% contributing 74,871 arrivals against its volume of

55,662 a year ago.


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Figure 4.4.1 Top Ten Visitor Markets January to April 2012/2011

(http://www.tourism.gov.ph/Pages/IndustryPerformance.aspx)

Figure 4.4.2 Visitor Arrival to the Philippines January to April 2012/2011

(http://www.tourism.gov.ph/Pages/IndustryPerformance.aspx)
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Table 4.4.1 distribution of Regional Travelers in the Philippines (January-December

2010)


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Table Table 4.4.1 distribution of Regional Travelers in the Philippines (January-

December 2010)


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Table 4.4.2 Distribution of Regional Travelers in the Philippines (January-December

2010)


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Table 4.4.1 distribution of Regional Travelers in the Philippines (January-December

2010)


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Based from the table of Distribution of Regional Travelers in

the Philippines, Region 4, where Batangas is a part of it, gained a total

of 4, 533, 673 foreign, overseas and domestic travelers in the year

2010. It was the mostly visited region followed by Region 5, Region 7

and then NCR. Batangas contributed with a total number of 256, 759

travelers. Refer to the table Distribution of Regional Travelers in the

Philippines January-December.

Table 4.4.3 Monthly Number of Guests in Lago de Oro (2001)

Month No. Of Guests

January 311

February 347

March 320

April 442

May 364

June 310

July 227

August 199

September 238

October 713

November 509

December 683

Source: Got a copy straight from the office of Lago de Oro


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Figure 4.4.3 Monthly No. Of Guests in Lago de Oro (2011)

Figure 4.4.3 presents the monthly record of the numbers of

tourists that visited the resort. By the end of the year, from October up

to December, were the months when they received the largest number

of 500 to 700 guests. During these months, many holidays and

vacations took place like the Semestral Break where people, mostly

students, dont have classes for two weeks. Another is the Christmas

break and New Year where many does not only prepares for Noche

Buena and Medya Noche at their homes, but also take some time to

travel outside of the country and have some leisure activities or just

relax with nature. The months of April and May ranked next and these

months belong to the summer season. people from the cities opt to go

to Lago de Oro to spend their summer vacation there not only for the

thrilling watersports but also because of the beach which is in demand

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JANUARY

FEBRUARY

MARCH

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MAY

JUNE

JULY

AUGUST

SEPTEMBER

OCTOBER

NOVEMBER

DECEMBER

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during summer. Other months were still accommodated with number

of people not reaching below 100. Other purposes for going to the site

were for conventions, meetings, special events like birthdays and

anniversaries, company outings, competitions, photography, for

relaxation, spa, food and a lot more reasons.

Watersports Enthusiast

According to the World Tourism Organization, sports tourism

has a remarkable growth and now emerging in the market. Within 20

years, it has grown at a phenomenal rate. Sports tourism events at

international, national and regional levels have a double-barreled

effect. The direct effect of the attendance of the competitors and/or

spectators and accompanying persons, and the indirect effect of the

marketing of the destination has lead to the subsequent tourism flows.

This indirect effect can be very largemost of the tourism benefits of

big sporting events are expected to be of this nature.

Philippines, being surrounded by waters, had also been known

for its water sports destination spots. Moreover, Hong Kong-based

Action Asia declares the Philippines as having all the ingredients to

become one of the worlds great adventure travel destinations.

Philippines also hosted the Southeast Asian Games in 2005, serving as


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catalyst to the various activities that were undertaken to insure

successful participation among our athletes and support by our people.

Particularly in Lago de Oro, they are made famous for hosting

annual international wakeboarding competitions. Many watersports

riders and spectators visit the resort to witness the competition. It has

promoted not only the resort but also the whole country and was able

to contribute to the economic and tourism growth.

4.5 Organizational Set-up and Personnel Functions

Table 4.5.1 shows the organizational chart in Lago de Oro. It is

consists of a chairman, company secretary, two directors, the

receptionists, restaurant or bar head, kitchen head, housekeeping head,

the water skiing head and the maintenance head. Each has different

roles in the operations and maintenance of the wakeboard park and

resort.


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LAGO DE OROORGANIZATIONAL CHART

Figure 4.5.1 Organizational Set-up Chart

(Copy from one of the shareholders, Colin)


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Personnel and their Position Role and Functions

Frank Camer-Pesci

Chairman & Share Holder

He has the highest position and the one

responsible for presiding over meetings

of the company. All the decisions and

plans are regulated by him. He is also one

of the major share holders of the

wakeboard park and resort.

Ellen Camer-Pesci

Company Secretary & Share Holder

As a company secretary, her principal

role is to ensure that the services and

operations are effectively regulated in

accordance with the rules and regulations

of the company. She stands as a guidance

to the implementation of every decisions

of the Chairman; thus is also a share

holder of the company.

Colin Sauvarin

Director & Share Holder

Aside from being one of the share

holder of the company,

Marilyn Plata

Director

Bong Lomarda

Director

Susan & Joane

Receptionists

They are the first persons to guide and

give information to people or guests.

Usually seated at the front desk of the


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lobby or office, doing variety of activities

including, but not limited to, answering

phones calls, making photocopies,

distributing mail, signing for packages,

and general office upkeep.

Raymund

Head in the Restaurant and Bar

He is entitled to supervise or manage the

work and services that correlates anything

about the bar and the restaurant. He

handles the training of the waiters and

waitresses, thus extending his duties to

accompany the other needs of the

customers.

Greg

Head in the Kitchen

He is the one in-charge of any activities

in the kitchen. From the buying and

inventory of goods, storage, preparation

of foods, cooking, up to the serving and

dishwashing. Managing the chef, cooks,

and dishwashers.

Bing

Head in Housekeeping

She is the one liable for the major

housekeeping of the hotels or any

accommodating facilities. She manages

the preparation of the rooms, cleaning,

changing of the beddings and other room

services.
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Brian & Obet

Head of the Water Ski Park

They are the ones in-charge with the

operations and any services related in the

cable wakeboard park or lake. They held

regular check-ups to make sure that the

machine and cables are safe to use and in

good condition. They supervise the other

wakeboard facility men and cable

operators to ensure smooth flowing

activity within their scope.

Ruben

Head in Maintenance

He acts as the head of the maintenance

team of the company. Their duties

include both the corrective and preventive

maintenance. He leads the team for

ensuring to achieve a smooth operational

condition.


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4.6 Programs and Activities

4.7 Legal Frameworks

There are laws and provisions, codes and guidelines that are

pertinent to the project which is a resort and wake park redevelopment.

Considering them shall best serve the interests of both the client and

the users. Some of them are as follows:

Presidential Decree No. 189, which created the Department ofTourism in (DOT) in year 1973. It was reorganized structurally and

functionally with Executive Order No. 120, Series of 1987; attaching

the PTA as its implementing arm for infrastructure development.

Presidential Decree No. 1463 (Revising Presidential Decree No.

189)this is the revised Charter of The Department of Tourism. This

is still for the development of the tourism industry and more

appreciation of the beauty of nature the country has.

Republic Act No. 710, the Philippine Tourist and Travel Association(PTTA) were created to bring together all organizations and entities


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that cater to travel and tourism.

Republic Act No. 1478, created the Board of Travel and TouristIndustry (BTTI) under the Department of Commerce and Industry

(DCI) to serve as the policy-making body for travel and tourism, while

the PTTA became its implementing arm. (www.tourism.gov.ph, 2009)

Republic Act No. 9593 The National Tourism Act of 2009 Theadaptation of the implementing rules and regulations under this act to

achieve the goal of making tourism as a tool of investment,

employment, growth and development of the country and its tourism.

The Philippine Environmental Code (Presidential Decree 1152):Since land is the primary resource base for sustainable development

and human activities are closely related to it, the most common form of

legal intervention is environmental controls.

Philippine Clean Air Act of 1999 (R.A. 8749), which states that: TheState shall promote and protect the global environment to attain

sustainable development while recognizing the primary responsibility

of local government units to deal with environmental problems. The

State recognizes that the responsibility of cleaning the habitat and

environment is primarily area-based. Finally, the State recognizes that

the clean and healthy environment is for the good of all and should

therefore, be the concern of all.


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Philippine Clean Water Act of 2004 (R.A. 9275) States that theState shall pursue a policy of economic growth in a manner consistent

with the protection, preservation and revival of the quality of our fresh,

brackish and marine waters. To achieve this end, the framework for

sustainability developments shall be pursued.

PD 1095 The National Building Code - To provide for all buildingsand structures, a framework of minimum standards and requirements to

regulate and control their location, site, design, quality of materials,

construction, use, occupancy and maintenance, the National Building

Code was enacted consistent with the principles of sound

environmental management and control.

Fire Code - The Fire Code sets uniform fire safety standards and theincorporation of fire safety construction and provision of protective

and safety devices in buildings and structures.

Sanitation Code - The Sanitation Code prescribes standards onsanitation and safety of establishments and undertakings. Sanitary

permits are required for establishments and the Department of Health

promulgates rules and regulations for the control and prevention of

pollution.


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The Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000 (R.A. 9003),which declares the policy of the State to adopt a systematic,

comprehensive and ecological solid waste management program.

National Structural Code of the Philippines This code gives thenecessary design standards to that will make building structurally

sound and thereby, ensuring safety for the users.

New National Accommodation Standards(DOT MemorandumCircular NO. 2012-02)-- States the rules and regulations and National

Tourism Standards that mandates for the accreditation of hotels, resorts

and other tourism-related accommodations.

Executive Order No. 120Hotel Code (in relation to Republic ActNo. 7160 also known as the Local Government Code of 1991)

The rules and regulations are for the accreditation of establishments

and to help classify hotels and guidelines as to other recreational

facilities.

Executive Order No. 120TRE Code (in relation to Republic ActNo. 7160 also known as the Local Government Code of 1991)

Here within are the rules and regulations for the accreditation of

tourism-related establishments such as sports and recreational facilities

and others.


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Executive Order No. 120-- Reorganization Act of the Ministry ofTourism. This contains promulgation of laws relative to the policy,

plans, programs and projects designed to promote and develop the

tourism industry such as marketing programs, formulating standards,

construction standards, maintenance, preservation, and many more that

relates to tourism-oriented establishments.

DOT MC No. 2006_09 -- Adoption of Safety and SecurityMeasures in Hotels, Resorts and Other Similar Accommodation

Establishments under this are guidelines to ensure the safety and

security of people in hotels or in any accommodation establishments.

Omnibus Investments Code (Executive Order No. 226) - Thisauthorizes the Board of Investments to grant fiscal incentives and non-

fiscal incentives for local and foreign investors engaged in tourism

activities listed under the current Investments Priorities Plan (IPP).

Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) Law (Republic Act 6957 asAmended by Republic Act No. 7718) - The BOT Law authorizes the

financing, construction, operation and maintenance of infrastructure

projects by the private sector. It allows national implementing agencies

and local government units to enter into BOT arrangement as a means


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of encouraging the participation of foreign and local companies in the

countrys infrastructure development program.

Rules and Regulations on Tertiary HospitalsUnder by which arethe guidelines for the accreditation of tertiary hospitals for medical

tourism.

Rules and Regulations on Motorized Boats/BancaUnder by whichare the guidelines for the accreditation of using motorized boats/banca

for tourism activities and services use.

Local Ordinances of the Municipality of Calatagan shall also applyin this project.

Recognizing the need for the establishment of sustainable tourism-

related facilities in order to further uplift the countries tourism

industry and realizing the need to rationalize the development of beach

resorts and other recreational activities and watersports in the

Philippines, the Executive and Legislative branches of the government

have taken the following initiatives: (Patdu et al, 2008)

Legislative Initiatives

Philippines Senate 15th Congress


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-Senate Bill No. 3092- Department of Sports Act of 2012

introduced by Antonio "Sonny" F.Trillanes entitled An Act creating

the Department of Sports, defining its powers and functions,

appropriating funds therefore, and for other purposes

-Senate Bill No. 3000- Coastal Tourism and Development Act

introduced by Miriam Defensor Santiago entitled An Act for a

Coastal Tourism Planning and Development Program

Senate Bill No. 2751- Solar Roof Act of 2010introduced by Miriam

Defensor Santiago and Francis "Chiz" G. Escuderoentitled An Act

providing competitive grants to local governments for rebates, loans,

and other incentives to eligible individuals or entities for the purchase

and installations for Solar Energy Systems for properties located in the

Philippines

-Senate Bill No. 2793- National Sustainable Sanitation Act of 201

introduced by Manny B. Villar entitled An Act providing a

framework for National Sustainable Sanitation Program, providing

funds and therefore and for other purposes

-Senate Bill No. 2574- Green Building Code Commission

introduced by Miriam Defensor Santiago entitled An Act to create the
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Green Building Code Commission to draft the National Green

Building Code

-Senate Bill No. 2247- Pool and SPA Safety Actintroduced by

Miriam Defensor Santiago entitled An Act to increase the Safety

Measures for Pools and Spas

-Senate Bill Bo. 2217- Beaches Environmental Assessment, Closure

and Health Actintroduced by Miriam Defensor Santiago entitled

An Act to improve the quality of Beaches and Coastal Recreation

Water

-Senate Bill No. 1857- Water Use Efficiency and Conservation

Research Actintroduced by Miriam Defensor Santiago entitled An

Act providing for research, development, education and technology

transfer activities related to Water Use Efficiency and Conservation

Technologies and Practices

-Senate Bill No. 1646- Aquatic Facility Standard Establishment

Actintroduced by Miriam Defensor Santiago entitled An Act to

establish Standards in Aquatic Facilities

All these bills and proposals show that even the lawmakers of the

land are aware of the fact that the development of sustainable tourism
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and sports tourism industry entails the progress of the people and the

locale as well. Should these bills be enacted into laws and should these

laws be implemented, the future of the Philippine sustainability and

tourism becomes a sure shot to national growth and development.

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