Handout 7 Flashcards
include inbound travel agencies and tour operators, local tour operators, ecotour operators, and tour guides, are classified as Primary Tourism Enterprises. Hence, these enterprises shall be periodically required to obtain accreditation from the Department of Tourism (“DOT”) as to the quality of their facilities and standard of services.
“Tourism Act of 2009”
an entity which may either be a single proprietorship, partnership, or corporation regularly engaged in the business of extending to individuals or groups, such services pertaining to arrangements and bookings for transportation and/or accommodation, handling and/or conduct of inbound tours whether or not for a fee, commission, or any form of compensation.
Tour Operator
an individual who guides tourists, both foreign and domestic, for a fee, commission, or any other form of lawful remuneration.
Tour Guide
renewal of the application for the issuance of passports may be filed by any licensed travel agency duly accredited by the Department of Foreign Affairs, provided that the agent shall be responsible for the authenticity of the supporting documents
being presented to meet the requirements for the application of passports
Philippine Passport Act of 1996
Who May Apply for Accreditation.
Section 3
Mandatory Documentary Requirements for New Applications.
Section 4
Minimum Office Requirements.
Section 7
Validity of Accreditation.
Section 10
Online Travel and Tour Agency.
Section 15.
prohibits travel agencies from recruiting. Travel agencies and sales agencies of airline companies are prohibited from engaging in the business of recruitment and placement of workers for overseas employment, whether for profit or not.
Article 26 of the Labor Code of the Philippines
is a significant opportunity to reduce costs and improve passenger convenience. It reduces ticket processing charges, eliminates the need for paper, and allows greater flexibility to the passenger and the travel agent to make changes on the itinerary
E-ticketing
known as the Electronic Commerce Act, an “electronic document” refers to information or the representation of information, data, figures, symbols, or other modes of written expression, described or however represented, by which a right is established, or an obligation extinguished, or by which a fact may be proved and affirmed, which is received, recorded, transmitted, stored, processed, retrieved, or produced electronically.
Republic Act No. 8792 (June 14, 2000)
Any gathering to exchange or disseminate views, technical expertise, experiences, knowledge, skills, intormation, policies, or any other related activity.
Convention
This refers to usually general sessions and face-to-face groups with high participation to plan, get facts, solve organization and member problems.
Conference
This is usually a one face-to-face group sharing experiences in a particular field under the
guidance of an expert discussion leader. Attendance generall is 30 persons or less
Seminar
It is a formal presentation by an expert, sometimes followed by a question-and-answer period.
Lecture.
It is a panel discussion by experts in a given field before a large audience; some audience participation but appreciably less than a forum
Symposium.
It is a panel discussion taking opposite sides of an issue by experts in a given field with a liberal opportunity for audience participation
Forum.
It is usually a general session and face-to-face groups of participants training each other to gain new knowledge, skills, or insights into problems; attendance generally no more than 30-35 participants.
Workshop
It is a program in which the participants determine the matter to be discussed. The leaders
would then construct the program around the most trequent problems; usually attended by 35 persons or less with equal emohasis on instruction and discussion
Colloquium.
It refers to any person, natural or juridical, who manages conventions, either as an official of an organization, consultant, volunteer or as a retained professional.
Professional Congress Organizer (PCO).
Rape. When and How Committed.
Article 266-A of Republic Act No. 8353 (The Anti-Rape Law of 1997)
characterized as the use of an excess of power or abuse of confidence.
“Grave abuse of authority”
Acts of Trafficking in Persons.
Section 4 of Republic Act No. 10364
refers to the recruitment, of persons with or without the victim’s consent or knowledge, within or across national borders, through fraud, deception, abuse of power or position, taking advantage of the vulnerability of the person, or the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person for exploitation which includes at a minimum, the exploitation or prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation.
Trafficking in persons
refers to participation by a person in prostitution or the production of pornographic materials as a result of being subjected to deception, abuse of authority, fraud, or through abuse of a victim’s vulnerability.
Sexual exploitation
refers to any representation, through publication, exhibition, cinematography, indecent shows,
intormation technology, or by whatever means, o a person engaged in real or simulated explicit sexual activities or any representation of the sexual parts of a person for primarily sexual purposes.
Pornography
a government-owned and controlled corporation, was established to regulate all games of chance in the Philippines.
The Philippine Gaming and Amusement Corporation (PAGCOR)
