proposal to charge fees for tourist destinations owned
or managed by the CGB is intended to raise funds for
maintenance of these sites and to cover funds for waste
management. The study recommends public education,
specicallyfortourists,topromotesustainableor
responsible tourism. The idea is to invite tourists to share
– particularly in terms of their actions and practices –
towards ensuring that the beauty of Baguio will be enjoyed
by generations to come. Tourist establishments and
businesses can be partners in this educational program.
For as long as Baguio City remains as the economic,
educational, and administrative center in CAR, it will
continue to attract migrants. Renewed efforts to realize
the Baguio, La Trinidad, Itogon, Sablan, Tuba and
Tublay (BLISTT) growth center are expected to foster
development beyond Baguio. The BLISTT Action Agenda
2017-2019 envisions BLISTT as a cooperative arrangement
among the member-local government units (LGUs) to
promote development for all. BLISTT is not a metro
arrangement where a single LGU dominates the rest (as
in Metro Davao or Metro Cebu). The BLISTT growth
node aims to decongest Baguio City while spreading
economic opportunities to the other member LGUs.
TherealizationofBLISTTwillbenetfromdeveloping
a migration lens, as the road toward developing a
regional growth node will include the movement not
only of capital and goods but of people as well.
Finally, the study offers the following
suggestions for future research:
The study reiterates the UCC study’s recommendation
to carry out a study of the daytime population of Baguio
City (tourists and transients) to improve the estimation of
carryingcapacity.Itisimportanttodenethesetermsand
concepts (see also PSA Board Resolution No. 08, Series of
2017,ApprovingandAdoptingtheOfcialConceptsand
DenitionsonInternalandInternationalMigrationfor
Statistical Purposes). Beyond estimating the size of the
daytimepopulation,itisimportanttoknowtheprole,
activities and services accessed by tourists and transients.
There are four barangays in Baguio City which piloted the
Local Migration Information System (LMIS). The LMIS,
now known as the Registry of Barangay, Inhabitants
& Migrants (RBIM), offers the advantage of collecting
migration data from the smallest political unit. The
questionnaire includes questions on the following:
previousresidenceveyearsago,previousresidence
six months ago, length of stay in the barangay, type
of resident (non-migrant, migrant and transient), sex,
age, date of transfer, reasons for leaving the previous
residence, date of transfer, plan to return to previous
residence and when, reasons for transferring to the
barangay, and intended duration of stay in the current
barangay. The question on reasons for leaving the
previous residence includes “disaster-related relocation”
among the seven response categories. This may allow
analysis of climate change-related relocation. The LMIS
is a low-lying fruit which can be explored for further
analysis to yield information on the extent of disaster-
relatedmigrationinthefourbarangaysandtheproleof
disaster-related migrants from other types of migrants.
This can be one of the projects that the CGB can carry
out or support toward developing a migration lens in
policymaking for Baguio City. As the proponent of
LMIS, the Commission on Population and Development
(POPCOM)-CAR is an important partner in this endeavor,
along with the Population Program of the City Health
Ofce(CHO),withwhichPOPCOM-CARisworking
closely in the implementation of the ongoing LMIS. The
CGB can convene a technical working group consisting
of POPCOM-CAR, NEDA-CAR, the Philippines Statistics
Authority-CAR, CHO, the Population Program of CHO,
CityPlanningandDevelopmentOfce,andmigration
scholars as core members. The technical working group
canreviewthedenitionsofnon-migrant,migrant
and transient used in the LMIS and the local context
vis-à-vis the PSA Board Resolution No. 08, Series of
2017,ApprovingandAdoptingtheOfcialConcepts
andDenitionsonInternalandInternationalMigration
for Statistical Purposes; make recommendations
towardthestandardizationofdenitionsofnon-
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