650 hotel job openings
soon to be available in Eastern Samar, Visayas region
By ALICE NICART (PIA Eastern
Samar)
August 13, 2007
GUIUAN, Eastern Samar
– Close to a thousand jobs will cater to the long-awaited dream of
many Eastern Samareños to find employment, in time the hotel business
begins in Calicoan Island of Guiuan, Eastern Samar, two years from
now.
This was learned from
Timothy “Tim” Brumlik, Director of Calicoan Integrated Resort
Development Corporation (CIRDC) in an interview with media during the
launching on Saturday of the eight-storey and 250-room Condominium
Hotel which is soon to be built in this part of the region.
Brumlik, a North
American, flew in to the white beach resort of Guiuan with other
members of their corporation and showed to the media the blue print of
their hotel which has an estimated cost of $150-160M. He added that it
will sit in an 11-hectare land area with a 450-meter beach front. He
also said that the hotel will need some 650 people to help in the
operation of their business from managers, chefs, receptionists and
room boys and assured further of the preference for local residents
and Cebuanos as well, adding that
Cebu is just a few minutes flight from Tacloban. He said that
this accessibility was also one of the factors which encouraged them
to put up the hotel business.
He further said that
he and his group met President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo shortly before
they proceeded to the Region to give her the updates of the hotel
business. According to him President Arroyo was glad to hear the
status report, it being one of her flagship programs in her “8 by 08”
Agenda. Absolutely, the American stressed that their hotel operation
will be line with her “Eight Million Job Creation” advocacy before her
term ends.
Brumlik projects that
the Calicoan Beach and Surfing Resort will be much better than Boracay
of Central Visayas. He said that aside from surfing and the white beach
which is a big come-on to foreign tourists, a Yoga facility to the
right side of the island (going Sulangan) will also attract
foreigners.
The friendly foreigner
stressed that they can finish the hotel construction in 24-months
starting January next year. At present, construction of the road
network of the entire hotel site, drainage system and water facilities
have been on going. Other facilities to be put in place soon are the
cellphone sites of Globe and Smart. Bendoy Bagares, a fish vendor from
the historic barangay Sulangan, who was among the crowd expressed
excitement at how would he operate a cellphone should he buy one next
year.
Asked how he would
describe Calicoan in three words, Brumlik said: awesome, accessible,
doable.