Functions
 
  • Develop identified tourism priority areas;
  • Operate, maintain, and promote facilities in pioneering capacity
  • Extend financial and technical assistance to qualified tourism projects
  • Generate revenues to fund national and corporate infrastructure development
 
What is the scope/coverage of each function?  
  • Develop identified tourism priority areas;
  

      Tourism priority areas refer to those with vast tourism potentials and identified for priority development by the DOT and in accord with the national development plan through NEDA.

  
  • Operate, maintain and promote facilities in pioneering capacity;
  

      Solely owned or thru joint ventures, PTA properties include resorts, hotels, golf courses and other tourism facilities in various areas of the country. Presently, PTA manages the following:

  
 
  • Extend financial and technical assistance to qualified tourism projects;
  

      Project proposals are being evaluated under a set of rules and guidelines and recommended accordingly by the Planning and Management Services Office (Corporate Planning Department) for PTA's financial and/or technical assistance.

  
  • Generate revenues to fund national and corporate infrastructure development;
  

      Travel Tax collection is PTA's main source of income. Travel tax is a levy imposed by the government on individuals (citizens of the Philippines, permanent resident aliens and non-resident aliens who have stayed in the country for more than a year) who are leaving the country irrespective of the place where the air ticket is issued and the form and place of payment, as provided for by P.D. 1183 as amended by P.D. 1207, Batas Pambansa Blg. 38, and E.O. 283 on travel tax.