DOT-DOLE 1st Philippine Tourism Job Fair pre-registration now open, more than 7k jobs available to tourism job seekers- Sec. Frasco

Team Out of Town Blog Hub (Outoftownblog.com) – Pre-registration for the first three legs of the Trabaho, Turismo, Asenso! 1st Philippine Tourism Job Fair, the flagship employment program of the Department of Tourism (DOT) and the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), is now open to prospective job seekers, as announced by Tourism Secretary Christina Garcia Frasco.

“To further assist our kababayans and make their job-seeking experience more seamless at the Trabaho, Turismo, Asenso! Philippine Tourism Job Fair, the DOT, and DOLE have opened the pre-registration for all three legs of the fair, covering one step of the application process. This enables the job seekers to focus instead on the event’s core, getting to know the participating establishments and companies and determining the career openings they wish to pursue,” Secretary Frasco said.

Interested applicants for the Manila leg, which will run from September 22 to 24 at the SMX Convention Center Manila in Pasay City, can register via https://bit.ly/philtourismjobfair

While job seekers for the Cebu leg, which will be held from September 22 to 23 only, at the SM City Cebu, can pre-register at https://bit.ly/cebuphiltourismjobfair

For the Davao leg, which will run from September 22 to 23 at Abreeza Mall Davao, job hunters can register ahead of time at https://bit.ly/davaophiltourismjobfair

A total of 7,510 job vacancies from 147 establishments across the three major locations from the accommodation establishments, travel and tour services, Meetings, Incentives, Conventions and Exhibitions (MICE) facilities and organizers, tourist transport operators, health and wellness services, restaurant/food service and other tourism-related establishments as of Thursday (Sept. 16) will be open to interest applicants during the initial run of the job fair.

A total of 3,367 jobs from the National Capital Region (NCR), CALABARZON, and MIMAROPA will be offered during the Manila leg. Cebu and Davao will open 1,633 and 2,510 jobs from the Visayas and Mindanao.

“While the DOT continues to work towards President Bongbong Marcos’ vision for tourism to contribute greatly to our country’s economic resurgence, we fully understand the need for this to be met with efforts to fortify the tourism and allied industry workforce. We could not be more grateful enough to the DOLE, the local government units (LGUs), and all our partners in the private sector who have…