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Estudios de Turismo

III: Mayon 2035: Natural Wonder to Global Destination

Part 3: The Roadmap
Arellano, A.C., Cotia D.J.
27 de julio de 2025
WTA, WTA Labs

Abstract

This document is a research and development effort into the viability of setting Mayon Volcano on an international platform as a global tourist destination. Known for its historical and cultural significance to the surrounding locals, its conical form, and its geographic location in the tropics of the Philippines, Mayon has great potential in becoming one of the best natural volcanic wonders of the world. This Tourism Destination Development Plan (TDDP) branches into sets of studies to ultimately visualize Mayon as one of Philippine’s top tourism products.

Keywords:

Tourism, Regional Studies, Bicol, Natural Wonder, Destination Development Planning

WTA site visit, Legazpi City, Albay, Bicol. 2024.

Introduction

This document is a research and development effort into the viability of setting Mayon Volcano on an international platform as a global tourist destination. Known for its historical and cultural significance to the surrounding locals, its conical form, and its geographic location in the tropics of the Philippines, Mayon has great potential in becoming one of the best natural volcanic wonders of the world.


This Tourism Destination Development Plan (TDDP) branches into sets of studies to ultimately visualize Mayon as one of Philippine’s top tourism products.


In this document:


Full Table of Contents


Part III,

The Roadmap: Tourism Destination Deelopment Plan of this TDDP implies spatiotemporal capacities of concluded intentions for Mayon Tourism potential for the global view—this is the destination development’s main product.


Finally presented in this section of the plan, is the ecosystem of the study’s tourism products harmoniously visualized: a mapped destination Masterplan of Mayon tourism on a 10-year mark. across Legazpi city extending to its neighboring cities and municipalities. Within such presentations, architectural aspirations are imagined and brought forth as proposed designs representing the goals of the research and the physical extensions of the researchers’ response to the tourism needs of the locality. At the end, a quantified spread of how such developments can improve the tourism capacity of Legazpi City on a 10-year period.


access the next parts to this study:


Part I, A Reflection on Mayon Tourism,


Part II, Tourism Analyses and Opportunities

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