Provincial Economic Development Office

TOURISM | INVESTMENTS | JOBS | COOPS

PEDO MANDATE: 2023-2025

Develop and promote competitive tourism, trade, investments and employment to support agri-fishery and eco-tourism sectors

OUR PROGRAMS

Planning, programming, coordinating, implementing and evaluating economic and tourism development by generating and retaining investments in order to create employment and support the local government revenue generation activities

#KABATA-ANFIRST2025

AN AGENDA TO PROMOTE RESILIENT SOCIO-ECONOMIC MOVEMENT FOR THE FUTURE OF GUIMARAS

Focused

Tourism, Trade, Investment, and Employment

Integrated

Infrastructure Development

Responsive

Health Care and Social Welfare and Services

Sustainable

Local Economy

Trusted

Fiscal and Bureaucratic Management

GUIMARAS VISION

Agri-eco-tourism capital of the region with empowered, self-reliant, resilient and healthy families enjoying a progressive economy and safe environment anchored on the principles of sustainable development.

PEDO THRUSTS

Key Functions

Tourism

Developing and marketing agri-eco tourism circuits by showcasing agrifishery and ecotourism products and services; creating tourism campaigns, and supporting and implement tourism activities.

Trade and Investment

Promoting the province as investment destination and assisting in the growth and development of the agribusiness, fishery and tourism sector

Labor and Public Employment

Providing multiemployment facility and services to assist jobseekers and youths in finding stable and sustainable employment in the agri-fishery and tourism activities and other related areas

Cooperative Development

Strengthening cooperatives and farmers/fisherfolks, community-based rural organizations and tourism associations, and providing livelihood and entrepreneurial services