DAVAO CITY (PIA) -- The Department of Tourism (DOT) regional office is looking to push for medical and wellness tourism to take advantage of the presence of several aesthetic centers and clinics in the region, particularly in Davao City.
“This is a new product we want to develop. Davao now has a lot of clinics, even dental, medical, and beauty clinics. Marami na, so we want them to be accredited with DOT so we can help promote them,” said DOT-XI Regional Director Tanya Rabat Tan.
The DOT Davao head recently joined Davao City Vice Mayor J. Melchor Quitain Jr. in gracing the opening of the Belo Medical Group clinic in Abreeza Mall in Davao City.
The Belo Clinic in Davao is the sole branch in Mindanao of the country’s largest medical aesthetics group. The newly opened clinic is twice as big as the previous Davao Belo Clinic located on Abreeza Mall’s second floor.
Rabat Tan said that while Belo Clinic is DOT-accredited in Manila, they are still in the process of accrediting their new clinic in Davao.
“When they are an accredited medical and wellness facility, part sila sa ating mga promotions, like sa mga travel shows, kasama sila, and trainings. hat is one of the benefits of our accreditation is the training they get from the DOT,” Rabat Tan said.
Since medical and wellness is a new tourism product in Davao, she said that they are working to lure more clinics and centers to accredit with the DOT.
“Since bago pa siya for Davao na mag-accredit, that is what we are working on para mapadami,” Rabat Tan said.
(Since this is new for Davao in terms of accreditation, that's what we're working on to increase.)
