Philippine Convention and Visitors Corporation: Service Description

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   As an attached agency of the Department of Tourism, the National Parks Development
Committee is tasked to develop, preserve, and manage Rizal and Paco Parks in Manila and other
parks that may be assigned to NPDC.

Philippine Convention and Visitors


Corporation
Service Description
The Philippine Convention & Visitors Corporation is a non-stock, non-profit government corporation
attached to the Philippine Department of Tourism (PDOT), tasked with promoting the Philippines as
an ideal tourism, convention and incentive travel destination. Its Conventions and Incentive Travel
Unit (CIT), in particular provides comprehensive information, assistance and guidance to meeting
planners and incentive travel organizers who seek an ideal venue for their meetings and incentive
groups. 
 Philippine Tourism Authority (Filipino: Pangasiwaang Pilipino sa Turismo), is an agency of
the Philippine national government under the Department of Tourism responsible for implementing
policies and programs of the department pertaining to the development, promotion, and supervision
of tourism projects in the Philippines.

A corporate entity attached to the Department of Tourism, the Philippine Tourism Authority
(PTA) plays a unique role in the promotion and development of the country's tourism industry.

The Intramuros Administration (IA) is an agency of the Department of Tourism of


the Philippines that is mandated to orderly restore, administer, and develop the historic walled area
of Intramuros that is situated within the modern City of Manila as well as well as to insure that the
16th- to 19th-century Philippine-Spanish architecture remains the general architectural style of the
walled area.[3]
It operates autonomously from the municipal government, [citation needed] although the Mayor of Manila is a
member of its board. It was established on April 10, 1979 as under the now defunct Ministry of
Human Settlements by virtue of Presidential Decree 1616 issued by then President Ferdinand
Marcos.[4] Executive Order No. 120 reorganized the Ministry of Tourism which became
the Department of Tourism (DOT) on January 30, 1987. The order also designated the IA as an
attached agency of the DOT.[3]
Its office is located at Palacio del Gobernador in Plaza Roma.[5]

The Ang Nayong Pilipino Foundation Inc. (NPFI), simply known as the Nayong Pilipino


Foundation (NPF) or Nayong Pilipino is a non-profit organization based in Manila, Philippines.
It is an autonomous government corporation under the Department of Tourism.
The Nayong Pilipino Foundation Inc. (NPFI) was established primarily for the promotion of research
development project on social sciences, humanities and other related fields. It was registered with
the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 7, 1969, as a non-stock, non-profit corporation.
[2]
 Then-President Ferdinand Marcos issued Presidential Decree No. 37 establishing the Nayong
Pilipino Foundation on November 6, 1972.[3] Within the same year, the organization was given a 45.9
hectares (113 acres) of land in Pasay, a portion of which stood the Nayong Pilipino Cultural Park. [4]

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