Functions
 
  • To develop identified priority areas;
  • To operate, maintain, and promote facilities in pioneering capacity
  • To provide technical and financial assistance to qualified tourism
        projects
  • To generate revenues to fund national and corporate development
        undertakings
 
What is the scope/coverage of each function?
 
  • Developing tourism priority areas;
 

      Areas with vast tourism potentials are programmed for priority development as identified by DOT under its Tourism Master Plan (TMP).
 
  • Operation, maintenance, and promotion of facilities in pioneering
       capacity;
 

      Solely owned or thru joint ventures, PTA properties include resorts, hotels, golf courses and other tourism facilities in the various areas of the country. Presently, being managed by PTA are the following:
 
 
  • Extension of financial and technical assistance to qualified tourism
       projects;
 

      Guidelines have been designed for project proposals to be evaluated and recommended by the Corporate Planning Department for priority development by granting technical and/or financial assistance.
 
  • Generation or revenues for funding national and corporate
       infrastructure undertakings;
 

      Travel tax collection is PTA's main source of income. Travel tax is a levy imposed by the government on individuals (citizens of the Philippines, permanent resident aliens who have stayed in the country for more than a year) who are leaving the country irrespective of the place where the air ticket is issued and the form and place of payment, as provided for by P.D. 1183 as amended by P.D. 1205, Batas Pambansa Blg. 38, and E.O. 283 on travel tax. Payment of travel taxes are coursed thru the Revenue Department.