CSF launches Heritage Passport app

CITY OF SAN FERNANDO – The city government here on Tuesday launched an online version of the Heritage Passport through an interactive mobile application.

The Heritage Passport mobile app is aimed at providing convenient navigation to foreign and local tourists who wants to explore the City of San Fernando, said City Tourism Officer Ching Pangilinan who spearheaded the project.

She stressed that mobile application will guide every user on the famous tourists and historical spots in the city and how to reach them through either jeepney, pedicab or kalesa ride and walking.

She explained that users only need to open their global positioning system (GPS) and the application will immediately issue a guide to the nearest heritage structure or any destination.

“Today kasi, most of the information is available online. It would be easier for people to visit our city and navigate around it with the help of the mobile app,” she sai d.

Pangilinan added that tourist-users can also save their photographs, as well as stamps on the physical version of their heritage passports through the application.

Pangilinan also disclosed that the Heritage Passport is proudly Fernandino-made. It was made by City College of San Fernando senior Information Technology Student John Michael Marcelo.

Pangilinan said the application was a thesis project of Marcelo which

The plenary sessions will include lectures on the responsible and ethical campus journalism and the Campus Journalism Act of 1991; fake news and how to spot them; campus paper management and creation of proposals, and sports vide3o showing for creative magazine publishing.

Aside from the plenary, the conference will also feature paper presentations and simultaneous seminar-workshops and contests.

“This year, there are also a lot of individual contests for the student-delegates. These include backpack journalism, lead writing, news editing, editorial writing, photojournalism (using DSLR and smartphone), and journalism quiz bee. Advisers will also compete under the news writing and copyreading and headline writing categories,” the SPAM president shared.

Meanwhile, competitions under the group category will include creative magazine publishing, radio broadcasting and documentary -making.

Pre-judged publication contests will also be at stake, which include Campus Magazine of the Year, Campus Newspaper of the Year, Campus Newsletter of the Year, Campus Broadsheet of the Year, and Campus Literary Folio of the Year.

For this year also, SPAM shall confer Medallion of Excellence in the Field of Campus Journalism in the Philippines Awards to selected college student journalists and campus paper advisers.

Registration fee is P5,500 per person for SPAM members and P5,800 for non-members which is inclusive of two nights and three days accommodation, meals, kits, certificates, planner, and confab T-shirt.

Those who are interested are enjoined to contact Briones via mobile numbers 09258201653 and 09328872871 or thru email add richardbriones.1977@gmail.com.

— By Marie Joy L. Simpao/ CLJD/ PIA-3