SENATE MAJORITY LEADER LINKS P63-M ADS TO RH BILL
No budget ‘fun(d)’ for DoT; Sotto demands advert pullout
By Angie M. Rosales 05/05/2012It’s not fun in the Philippines.
Department of Tourism chief Ramon Jimenez may soon find out it’s not fun to place “It’s more fun in the Philippines” advertisements in Cable News Network (CNN) and it won’t be fun either for him and his department when a senator threatens to cut off his tourism budget to P1 when budget time comes around.
Senate Majority Leader Vicente Sotto III is demanding the pullout of the reported P63-million advertisement placement in CNN spent by the government for its tourism campaign, shown in Asia, the United States and Europe.
The senator wants an explanation from the Department of Tourism (DoT) and has threatened to block the approval of the agency’s budget for next year, when it is taken up in Congress, if Jimenez fails to justify the funding for the television commercial that premiered in the international news channel..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20120505hea1.html
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