A cultural mapping with consultative meeting was initiated by the Negros Occidental Tourism Center in the fourth district of the province at the Balay ni Tan Juan Community Museum in Bago City recently, its press release said.

Cultural mapping involves a community identifying and documenting local cultural resources that makes a community unique, initiating a range of activities to record and conserve. It aims to help communities celebrate, and support diversity for economic, social and regional development, the press release also said.

Forty-eight councilors, educators, planning officers and barangay captains from the local government units of La Carlota, Bago, Pulupandan, Pontevedra, San Enrique and Valladolid, that compose the fourth district of Negros Occidental, attended the one-day activity, with Clemente del Castillo, president of the Western Visayas Association of Museums, and Roque Hofilena, executive director of the Negros Occidental Historical Council, as resource speakers.

Topics included the history and culture as basis for tourism and other socio-economic aspects; an overview of the historical roots of Negros Occidental from the pre-Spanish to present times; heritage, culture and Philippines laws like Republic Act 10066, which provides for the protection and conservation of the national cultural heritage, strengthening the National Commission for Culture and the Arts and its affiliated agencies, the press release added.*

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