MISSION

To gather and analyze (tourism) relevant and accurate data for sharing, planning and decision making.

CURRENT MONITORING PROCESSES

For Batanes, not all of the INSTO monitoring key issue areas will be monitored immediately. Rather through workshops with stakeholders, priority issues have been identified for periodic assessment. To assist in the consideration of potential sustainability indicators in Batanes, the research team has adopted the participatory approach to indicators development. Specifically a series of stakeholders engagements employed a workshop approach to identify the key sustainability issues and how to measure their changes across three islands over time. Residence, local administrators, and TWG members from Batan, Sabtang, and Itbayat participated.

KEY MONITORING AREAS

Local Satisfaction with tourism
Economic benefits
Solid waste management
Cultural integrity
Governance
Biodiversity
Physical carrying capacity

DID YOU KNOW...

The Province is the only area in the Philippines where traditional architecture is stone in response to the winds and monsoon weather, rather than the more typical, tropical, impermanent materials such as wood, bamboo, thatch, commonly used in village architecture. One of the most iconic features of the Batanes cultural landscape is the vernacular house with metre-thick stone walls topped by an equally durable cogon roof.