Sagada Local Guide

01/07/2025

🌏 Out now: Journal of Sustainable Tourism – Vol. 33, Issue 7 (2025)
Theme: Sustainable Tourism in Emerging Economies

From rural China to Nepal, this issue explores how culture, community, emotion, and entrepreneurship drive sustainability in tourism.

What’s inside?
– Cross-cultural sustainability
– Social entrepreneurship & SDGs
– Carbon offsetting behavior
– Community participation
– Tourism & identity
– Gender equity
– Spiritual & emotional drivers
– Environmental messaging
📘 Fresh ideas. Local insights. Global relevance.

Special thanks to guest editors Honggen Xiao, Haiyan Song, and Sam Huang for their outstanding work on this issue.

🔗 Find the link in the comments!

30/06/2025

Sagada Local Guide attended the first day of Pidlisan tribe’s Sensorial Cartography workshop with Prof. Philippe Racekiwicz of Wageningen University (The Netherlands) as the resource speaker.

Sensiorial cartography goes beyond the typical, visually focused mapping. It instead incorporates sensory experiences beyond sight and that includes sound, touch, smell, and even taste to create a more holistic understanding of a place. It is a more subjective representation of the reality we perceive.

Knowledge of sensorial mapping can significantly enhance our effectiveness and creativity as local tour guides by allowing us to design more immersive, memorable, and emotionally engaging experiences for visitors.

30/06/2025

July 1 and 4…

𝐓𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐌 𝐀𝐃𝐕𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐑𝐘: Tour Suspension

In respect of the burial at the CSMV Cemetery, Paytokan (Echo Valley - Hanging Coffins) is CLOSED to tourist on July 1 (Tuesday) and July 4 (Friday), 2025.

For your information and guidance.

29/06/2025

28/06/2025

Mga lagawan… padayon! Lagawanders of Bacolod City… thank you to everyone and Mamakde Transient House Sagada for recommending us! See you all again. 🧡🌲⛰️🌻

📩📞 DM or call Sagada Local Guide or 09176548121 / 09178543941

28/06/2025

One of the rarest jobs in Japan is the bokka. These porters carry up to 400 pounds of supplies on wooden ladder frames to mountain guesthouses that cars can’t reach. The game ‘Death Stranding’ was inspired by this job.

28/06/2025

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27/06/2025

𝐓𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐌 𝐀𝐃𝐕𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐑𝐘: Tour Suspension

In respect of the burial at the CSMV Cemetery, Paytokan (Echo Valley - Hanging Coffins) is CLOSED to tourist today, 28 June 2025.

The site will be opened to tourist - June 29, 2025.

For your information and guidance.

27/06/2025

We also cater to big groups like this group of 13 pax. This is another exclusive tour we’ve had recently. Thank you Monica! See you all next time! 🧡🌲⛰️🌻

📩📞 DM or call Sagada Local Guide or 09176548121 / 09178543941

27/06/2025

Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC)

💡What is a protocol on Free, Prior and Informed Consent?

It’s a document created by an Indigenous Peoples that outlines how they want external actors—such as governments, companies, or NGOs—to engage with them in decisions that may affect their lives, territories, and resources.

🔍 In essence, an protocol is…