THE SMOKE Out Zamboanga and Grand Midnight Sale along RT Lim Boulevard starts on Saturday, Sept. 29, to kick off Zamboanga City’s annual Hermosa Festival. The Smoke Out features grilled food and other local delicacies while the Midnight Sale offers various goods at discounted prices. The Hermosa Festival, a fiesta in honor of the city’s patron saint, the Virgen del Pilar, will open on Oct. 1 with various activities lined up. One of these is the first travel and tour exposition on Oct. 5-7, intended to showcase the city’s prime destinations. City Tourism Officer Sarita Sebastian-Hernandez said the expo, dubbed as Exposicion de Viajes en Zamboanga, will be participated in by shipping companies, airlines, and travel and tour agencies from around the country. “These selected travel and tour agencies will have a business to business scheme with their local counterpart in the city to ensure the availability of the suppliers,” Ms. Hernandez said. “We are also preparing the ‘pocket information’ for the different travel and tour agencies,” she added. Among the tourism sites that will be promoted are the pink-sand Sta. Cruz Island, the 11 islands tour, and different restaurants in the city’s downtown that are preparing Arabian, Malaysian, and Spanish cuisines. — Albert F. Arcilla

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