SAN CARLOS CITY

NEGROS OCCIDENTAL

San Carlos is a second class component city in Negros Occidental. Its natural resources include an island with two barangays, protected seascapes, protected natural parks, numerous caves, waterfalls and beautiful landscapes.

What makes it unique is the proximity of the mountain and beach destinations within the city where the renewable energy facilities are.

San Carlos has always been an advocate in clean and green practices. “Vamos San Carlos; Where Green is Go” is the city’s slogan. It summarizes the city’s thrust towards tourism progress and progress in general. Its citation as one of the Asean Community’s Environmentally Sustainable Cities (ESC) and the Asean Clean Tourist City seal/award in which only three in the Philippines got the same recognized San Carlos’ sustainability efforts towards sustainable tourism.

In order to reduce the environmental impacts of transportation in the city, “pedicab” is mainly used, a humanpowered means of transport.

San Carlos is a top destina- tion for community empowerment actions and for the proper management of visitor behavior at the sensitive sites. The city ensures community empowerment by creating people’s organizations (PO) and associations so that residents shall act as stewards of the destination, as well as proper visitor behavior by establishing control measures in the form of regulations, policies and ordinances which are being placed in public areas, so that visitors are guided to their limitations when visiting the city.