TACLOBAN CITY – While Leyte is eager promoting tourism in its locality, the province is also facing a problem for lack of tour guides.

Representative Remedios Petilla of Leyte’s first district admitted in a press conference that “we don’t have enough tour guides especially to regular tourists such as those form Japan, Korea, China and others who cannot speak the English language.”

According to her, if this scenario would continue that we lack tourists here who really can talk other languages beside English, then we might as well lose these regular tourists and effect decrease to our tourism industry here.

“Tour guides are important for tourism…they entertain and represent our hospitability to foreign people, so without enough number of them might discourage tourists from coming back,” Petilla added.

To this effect, Petilla and the leadership of the Leyte Provincial government through Gov. Jericho Petilla, will undertake a training of tour guides probably early January next year.

Express learned that tour guides will be screened and accredited to professionalism and formality.

Representative Petilla for her part expressed optimism that the province of Leyte will soon have enough professional tour guides after the said projected training that certainly would play significant role in boosting the tourism industry here.