Sarangani Bay Festival 2014

The Sarangani Bay Festival (SarBay Fest) has started to become a google item few years after its inception. And the 2014 version of this festivity has been very dominant, gathering tourists from all over the world that eventually made Sarangani Province the next ultimate beach party destination in Mindanao.

My warm congratulations to the provincial government of Sarangani for coming up with such a wonderful initiative. People’s response to the festival was amazing, congregating more or less 80,000 (as per verbal information) people which eventually generated multiplier effects to the residents of Sarangani. With that weeklong event, local trade flourished, resorts and accommodation facilities were all fully-booked and this formerly- hushed province was instant abode of the so-called “party people”.

 

According to Governor Steve Solon whom I chatted with during the finale evening of the festival, this year’s celebration was the grandest and the biggest in terms of arrivals. “We are happy to note that more people visited SarBay this year and we will be making it more festive next year.”

With the success of SarBay Fest 2014, there can be no stopping the Sarangani Province to become a future household name for tourists. And I am glad to have witnessed it through an invitation of a good friend Meggy and the rest of her friends.