Ivan Anthony Henares

• PhD Hospitality & Tourism Management
• Professor (Assistant) at University of the Philippines System

Journal of Philippine Tourism and Hospitality Studies. Vol 1. No. 1. Published by the Philippine Association of Researchers for Tourism and Hospitality. ISSN 2704-2812. This article presents the methodology used in developing sustainability indicators for the Rice Terraces of the Philippines Cordilleras, a project the authors carried out in 2016 f...

Henares, I. A. S., Soriano, R. S., Soriano, V. J., Gonzalo, R. P. A., Llaguno, E. L., & Gotera, K. M. C. (2016). Establishment of Sustainability Science Demonstration Pilot Project on Rice Terraces of the Philippines Cordilleras. A report submitted to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Regional Science Bur...

The Agusan Marsh Wildlife Sanctuary is a protected area and ecologically significant wetland in Agusan del Sur, Philippines. A wetland of international importance, it has been a transit point for over 200 individual species of wild birds from Northern Asia and Australia that arrive during the winter months. Small communities of Agusan Manobos live...

The City of San Fernando, Pampanga in the Philippines holds the Giant Lantern Festival annually every Christmas season. Several barangays (villages) of the city produce gargantuan giant lanterns, with each community required to raise funds to cover costs. Participation in the festival is determined by many factors including the availability of fund...

With the increased role of local authorities in creating cultural policy, gathering information on how successful and sustainable local heritage conservation programs are established will be very valuable in crafting future policies. This dissertation investigated the development of local government heritage conservation policies in the City of San...

Community-led and community-based tourism programs in indigenous communities in the Philippines have provided opportunities for local people determine the interpretation and content for guided tours, allowing visitors to experience the area from the lens of the community. Best practices include those of the Ivatans of Batanes, the Ifugaos, and the...

The Philippines ratified the 1972 Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (World Heritage Convention) in 1985. Since then, the country has had six World Heritage inscriptions, namely the Baroque Churches of the Philippines (1993), Tubbataha Reefs (1993), Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras (1995), His...

Tourism, travel, pilgrimage and cultural heritage protection and enhancement have always been linked. Pilgrimage routes and experiencing the significant structures along the way and at the eventual destination can be viewed as one of the original forms of tourism. Over time, pilgrimages have been embedded in popular opinions as intentional, necessa...

The idea to create a Negros Island Sugar Heritage Trail was a result of a proposal to nominate the Sugar Centrals of Negros Island for potential World Heritage inscription. There are many intact sugar centrals around Negros Island. Initially, this serial nomination was to be called Centrales Azucareras of Negros Island to include historic sugar cen...

The amazing race called the Kapampangan People—a linguistic island surrounded by an encroaching sea of Tagalogs, Ilocanos, Pangasinenses, and other ethnic and foreign people, yet valiantly pushing back to preserve its unique language and cultural and historical legacy; only two million left, half of whom are scattered all over the planet, everyone...

The City of San Fernando, Pampanga in the Philippines organizes the Giant Lantern Festival annually every Christmas season. The lantern-making tradition was brought to the Philippines from China, while the celebration of Christmas accompanied Spanish colonization. The festival traces its roots to a practice called lubenas, a nine-day religious acti...

The sugar trade was a major encounter of the Philippines with globalization. Western Visayas was and still is the country’s prime producer of sugar and has had a long history of sugar production dating back to the 19th century. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, there were proposals to create a Western Visayas Sugar Heritage Trail anchored on industri...

The Agusan Marsh in Agusan del Sur is the largest inland wetland in the Philippines. Agusan is one of the few cultural landscapes that has great potential to be the frontier of community-based wetland and indigenous tourism for people to appreciate and understand the synergy between wetlands and people better. Climate change and prolonged drought...

One World, One Purdue (OWOP) is a unique opportunity to celebrate cultural diversity and encourage student involvement. OWOP 2019 showed that domestic student organizations should take advantage of the opportunity to partner with international student organizations to create even more vibrant events and hands-on intercultural learning experiences....

The Rice Terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras is a World Heritage Site with five inscribed rice terrace clusters, all considered outstanding examples of an evolved, living cultural landscape. Sustainability science was used to explore the cultural landscape in the Philippine Cordilleras. During the collaborative and iterative research process, th...

The knowledge cafe session will focus on the sustainability implications of cultural tourism development on rural landscapes and resulting impacts for tangible and intangible cultural heritage. Specifically, the session would focus on the relationship between rural heritage and tourism and how issues can be addressed in the updating of the ICOMOS C...

Heritage is an important tool for development. According to ICOMOS (1999), “heritage and collective memory of each locality or community is irreplaceable and an important foundation for development,” such as in cities with historic districts. Sustaining historic districts requires effective conservation policies. Policies should regulate and encour...

Heritage cities are important attractions for tourism. To maintain these conservation areas, funding is required. Government resources are however inadequate to address requirements for heritage conservation. Incentives thus encourage private sector conservation initiatives, participation, and compliance with conservation guidelines. Property tax i...

Baguio City is a highly-urbanized city in the Cordillera Administrative Region. It was established as a hill station in 1900, the only American hill station in Asia, to serve as the summer capital of the Philippine Islands. The University of the Philippines College Baguio Educational Foundation, Inc. (UPCBEFI) requested for technical assistance for...

Bondoc Peninsula is the Third District of Quezon Province. The peninsula consists of twelve municipalities: Agdangan, Buenavista, Catanauan, General Luna, Macalelon, Mulanay, Padre Burgos, Pitogo, San Andres, San Francisco, San Narciso and Unisan. The NCCA conducted technical assistance in coordination with the Provincial Tourism Office of Quezon P...

Tigaon is a 3rd class municipality in the 4th District of Camarines Sur, also known as the Partido District. The Municipal Government of Tigaon, Camarines Sur requested for technical assistance to assist them craft a heritage tourism program for the municipality as well as conduct a rapid assessment of built heritage. Currently, tourism revolves ar...

Sustainable development is founded on the reconciliation of society’s development goals with the world’s limits. The strategy to achieve sustainable development involves the promotion of harmony between humanity and nature. Sustainability science offers a new approach to facilitate the transition toward sustainability through the study of complex i...

The Municipality of Kawit in the province of Cavite is of high historical significance in the Philippines. It is well known as one of the sites associated with the Philippine Revolution against Spain that began in 1896 and ended with the declaration of Philippine Independence in 1898. It was here in Kawit where Emilio Aguinaldo, Kawit’s most famous...

Alaya : the Kapampangan Research Journal, No. 3 (2005) Angeles City : Juan D. Nepomuceno Center for Kapampangan Studies

The members of the Leon y Santos Clan are descendants of Don Francisco Paula de los Santos and Doña Luisa Gonzaga de Leon, both Chinese Mestizos. Don Francisco was gobernadorcillo of the gremio de mestizos of Bacolor in 1821 and again in 1824, after serving as interim alcalde mayor of Pampanga. Doña Luisa is one of the well-known Kapampangan writer...

Most only see the finished product. The dynamic interplay of lights and color that precisely moves with the rhythm of a brass band, the magnitude of size and their intricate designs, and so much more which spectators only get to appreciate as the giant lanterns of San Fernando are pitted against each other on festival night. No one can dispute the...

In his entire lifetime, Jose P. Rizal was able to master many trades. He was among others, a physician (an ophthalmologist), poet, dramatist, essayist, novelist, historian, architect, painter, sculptor, educator, linguist, musician, naturalist, geologist, botanist, zoologist, ethnologist, anthropologist, archeologist, surveyor, engineer, farmer, bu...