BACOLOD City – The Sipalay City’s annual kite festival is promoting the reduction of plastic waste in Negros Occidental.
The participants of the award-winning tourism event will not use plastic materials, said Sipalay City Tourism officer Jerick Lacson on Tuesday.
“This is part of the efforts of the city to reduce plastic waste in events and festivals,” Lacson said.
The three-day Burangoy Tourism Kite Festival, which kicked off on Monday, is being held at the Poblacion Beach of the southern Negros city.
Lacson said the event, on its seventh year, became one of the biggest kite festivals in Western Visayas.
“Burangoy” is coined from the words burador or kite and barongoy, a local term for flying fish.
The Sipalay kite festival was awarded as the grand winner in the Best Tourism Event (Sports) City Category of the 2018 Pearl Awards organized by the Association of Tourism Officers of the Philippines and the Department of Tourism.
The event will also include other activities such as the kite design and flying competition, fun kite-flying exhibition, wind garden, and the newly-added trike and trisikad kite design contest. (With a report from PNA/PN)
