Chapter I

INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background of the Study

A theme park is a destination, which combines entertainment, foods and beverages and shops, and an

environment that is different from outside gates. A theme is used to provide a focus for design,

development and operation of such a park. This proposed theme park, which would depict Panay Culture,

It’s richness and versatility on a large scale. Its arenas would be distributed geographically, so that the

people will be eager to get acquainted with the culture of Panay. The site also holds the area of the staff,

administrative areas as well as a guest house for accommodation.

Iloilo City has always been one of the top city destinations in the Philippines because of its

wealth of attractions that draw both domestic and international tourists. Heritage and cultural tourism is

the City’s unique selling point as centuries-old structures such as churches, cathedrals, buildings and

homes with varying architectural design, degrees of antiquity, and historical significance made its mark as

the city’s best tourist attractions.

Water world Iloilo is the first and only water park in Western Visayas awarded as the Best Waterpark of

2017 by Philippine Tourism Industry Awards and a proud member of International Association of

Amusement parks and Attractions (IAAPA). Located inside the two-hectare property of Eon Centennial

Resort Hotel and Waterpark in Alta Tierra Village, Jaro, Iloilo City. https://www.tripadvisor.com.ph/

To add, Museo Iloilo has also become the most prominent center of cultural representation and

repository of historical artifacts. Antiques, and heritage collection outside Manila. Tourists from all over

the world as well as from many parts of the country have been drawn to visit Iloilo.

Despite of having this attractions and a theme park lots of Ilonggo visit other province just to visit a

theme park example, the Campuestohan in Talisay City Negros and MagikLand in Silay City, Negros

Occidental.

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1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

The Panay Cultural Theme Park aims to design a place that portrays the custom and life of Panay. Its

purpose is to design a place that can cater entertainment and cultural events to promote a culture of Panay

and also depicts an event, occasion, belief, custom and the way of living of the ancestors of Panay. And

this proposed theme park will be a tourist attraction not just in Iloilo but also in Panay.

Today, Iloilo is a popular convention and meeting destination, with its first-class accommodations and

New Airport of International standards. Tourists will find sprawling malls scattered across the province

wherein they can replenish supplies as well as their energies for the hectic sand-and-water environment

that are soon to follow. Iloilo serves as the gateway to the region.

This kind of facility is needed, it can bring great experiences, generate and boost income at the same.

Since Iloilo is one of the rising in the country, creating a theme park based on Panay history will specify

cultural tradition and origin from other places of the Philippines.

1.3 General Objective

This study aims to design a theme park in Iloilo that will provide a venue for creational activities,

relaxation, educational purposes and social-cultural events.

1.4 Specific Objectives

To provide a venue for innumerable attractions.

To provide amenities for accommodation, recreational facilities, leisure area and comfort for the visitor.

Complements the leisure patterns and recreational demand of Panay people.

To promote good Panay values and pride.

To incorporate traditional Panay games, festivals, culture, heritages and landmarks into the design of

landscape attractions and amenities.

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1.5 Significance of the Study

Community

To develop a partnership for sustainable development and adaptation strategies for cultural events.

Tourism

To boost the tourism industry of the local government. To develop relationships between Filipino

cultures.

Economic

To acknowledge the different local culture and festival of Panay

Individual/ Family

To relieve stress and to learn the history of Panay during leisure times in the form of providing a great

facility for everyone.

1.6 Scope and Limitation

This study focuses on the culture and festivals in different areas of Panay. This study considers the

components of the theme park such as cultural events and festivals of Aklan, Capiz, Antique, and Iloilo.

This study limits its coverage on theme parks. The theme park located inside the country may be

mentioned for the basis only because the theme park did not originate in the Philippines. Its main purpose

is to plan a theme park that would be located at Iloilo.

1.7 Definition of Terms

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Cultural Theme Park

A theme is used to provide a focus for the design, development and operation of such a park. Thereby, a

“Cultural Theme Park” is an amusement park which is themed on a particular culture, and all its rides,

attractions as well as other elements of interest are based on ideas from that specific culture.

Culture

Culture is a cumulative deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings,

hierarchies, religion, notions of times, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe, and materials

objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and

group striving. It is a way of life of a group of people that are passed along by communication and

imitation from one generation to the next.

Panay

Panay, island, westernmost of the Visayan Islands, central Philippines, surrounded by the Sibuyan,

Visayan, and Sulu seas; the Guimaras Strait to the southeast separates it from Negros. It is roughly

triangular in shape. A rugged, almost unpopulated mountain range parallels its western coast. Between the

range and a hilly eastern portion, a densely populated, intensely farmed (sugarcane, rice) plain extends for

about 95 miles (155 km) from the northern to the southern coasts. A wide lowland on the southeast is

formed by the deltas of the Jalaud, Jaro, and Sibalom rivers.

There are large concentrations of fishponds in the northern and eastern parts of the island, and mineral

deposits include coal and copper. The inhabitants are primarily of the Hiligaynon (Ilongo) ethnolinguistic

group; nomadic peoples live in the mountainous areas. Panay’s major cities are Roxas and Iloilo City.

Many areas on Panay sustained heavy damage from Super Typhoon Haiyan, a powerful tropical cyclone

that struck the region on November 8, 2013. Area 4,446 square miles (11,515 square km). Pop. (2000)

and smaller adjacent islands, 3,503,865; (2010) and smaller adjacent islands, 4,031,636.

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