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Accelerating Investment for More Business
The Department provides technical assistance to identified Tourism Development Areas
(TDAs), namely: Laoag City, Batac City, Bangui, Burgos, and Pagudpud in Ilocos Norte;
and Vigan City, Candon City and Santa in Ilocos Sur for them to become economically
competitive.
As TDAs, these LGUs were provided with technical assistance in: 1) Preparing
Business Plans, 2) Organizing / Strengthening their Local Economic Development and
Investment Promotion Team / Office, 3) Development / Updating of their Comprehensive
Development Plan and 4) Formulation / Updating of their Local Revenue Code (LRC),
Schedule of Market Values (SMV) and Local Investments and Incentives Code (LIIC).
An orientation on Business Plan Formulation took place on October 6-9, 2015 at the
Dagupan Village Hotel for the eight (8) target-LGUs. All target LGUs have
draft Business Plan as of December 2015.
Also, six (6) out of the eight (8) LGUs have completed their LIIC while the remaining two
(2) LGUs are under Sanggunian review.
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