OLIVAREZ COLLEGE

TAGAYTAY
E. Aguinaldo Highway, Brgy. San Jose, Tagaytay City
HOMEWORK 1st SEMESTER S.Y. 2023-2024
THC3 – QUALITY SERVICE MANAGEMENT
BSHM211 | BSTM211

NAME: Kier A. Barasi DATE: 9/7/23

Palaui Environmental Protectors Association (PEPA)

PEPA collaborates with the DENR to conserve forests, manage coastal and marine habitats,

and promote ecotourism. The PO, which has 320 members, was founded in 1993 as part of the

DENR's Coastal Environment Program. On Palaui Island, Sta. Maria, there is a community-based

sustainable tourism organization called PEPA. Since then, CEZA has assisted the group in a variety

of ways, including capacity building, formal organization, livelihood trainings, re-organization into

sub-groups, and more. In addition to serving as the mother organization for seven sub-groups,

including the PEPA Weavers Association, Palaui Island Tour Guides, Palaui Island Women's

Catering, Palaui Island Reef Rangers, Palaui Island SPA, Palaui Island Honey Hunters Marketing

Cooperative, and Palaui Island Home-Stay, PEPA has evolved from merely being the guardians of

Palaui Island. PEPA currently has 325 members, up from 71.

The ATF 2023 honored outstanding tourism businesses and destinations in the region that

have complied with the transnational association’s tourism norms. The award was entered by

Tourism Secretary Christina Garcia Frasco and Director Virgilio M. Maguigad of the Office of Tourism

norms and Regulation (OTSR) in behalf of the association. The award recognizes associations in

the region that support sustainable livelihoods, protection of socio-artistic traditions and natural and

artistic heritage. The said award recognizes PEPA to have passed the norms set by ASEAN for
community- grounded tourism, which include norms for community power, for donation to social

well- being, for conserving and perfecting the terrain, for encouraging commerce between the

original community and guests, for quality escarpment and guiding services, for icing quality food

and libation services, for icing quality lodgment, and for icing the performance of community-

grounded stint drivers.