A Philippines Business?

Thinking about opening a business in the Philippines?

MAYOR”S BUSINESS PERMIT

Every Municipality had slightly different rules for the granting of this Permit so don’t be surprised if some additional requirements are asked for or some of the procedures are slightly different.

• Go to the City Hall in the Municipality in which your business will operate and apply for a Mayor’s Permit. Take along your DTI or SEC certificates
• The fees charged will depend on the type of business you are setting up and the amount of your paid up capital – it should range between 2000p and 6000p for small operations.
• You will be granted a temporary permit and you have 60 days to comply with all of their requirements which are detailed below.
• Contact their Special Inspection Team to arrange a time for them to visit your business premises.  3-4 people will come to check out the building for fire safety, sanitary and environmental compliance and they will leave a list of things you need to do and the permits you need to get.
• Obtain a Sanitary Permit.
• Obtain a Fire Safety Permit – you will probably be required to buy a fire extinguisher.
• Obtain a Health Permit –  you will probably need to have chest X-ray.
• Visit the Environmental Officer to check his concerns and get his stamp of approval
• Visit the Treasury Officer at City hall to check if your capital is sufficient.
• Register yourself or your Corporation with the Bureau of Internal revenue (BIR) – you will need to attend a 3 hour seminar and will need to have a set of Official Receipts printed. Registration with the BIR costs 500p and the printing of the Official Receipts will cost you around 2,500p.
• Register your business and any employees with Philhealth.
• Register your business and any employees with Pag-Ibig.
• Register your business and any employees with SSS.
• Take all your permits, registrations and compliances to City Hall to obtain your Mayor’s Permit.

• It will involve many hours of waiting in queues often to be told you are in the wrong one!
• It will involve revisiting offices several times because of some piece of lacking information which you were never told to bring!
• You will never be told the whole process, or even the next few steps unless you ask detailed questions.
• Things need to be done in a specific order.
• Some government offices will accept photocopies while others need to view the original.
• Although the laws regarding setting up a business are uniform throughout the Philippines, each Municipality will have a slightly different interpretation of those laws.

Things will not happen at the same pace as they do in your own country – if you are not patient, don’t even bother.
Far better to come over and enjoy what others have worked for.  Philippinesgaytourist@yahoo.com

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MORE FUN WITH GAY FRIENDS.

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FREE ADs FOR GAY PHILIPINES

 

If you have a business or event in the Philippines that would interest the gay tourist; contact us at philippinesgaytourist@yahoo.com   Until we are properly established we will advertise your business in return for advertising or helping our business. It is simply a matter of mutual benefit. 

Events like festivals will be advertised well in advance so if you have another event associated with the first; let us know. For instance, if there is an ‘after parade’ party. If tickets are needed for a closed door event, make a few available to us to give away for promotional purposes. But it must be well in advance.

Shops and wholesalers are welcome to advertise with us in return for treating our clients right. We will bring other clients to you.  Tell us if you have male interest stock.

Hotels are obviously welcome to offer discounts, but we will only feature two (2) in each city.

Email us now about helping each other.       philippinesgaytourist@yahoo.com 

GAY IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE

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FESTIVALS AND GAIETY.

FESTIVALS AND GAIETY.

If there is one thing Filipinos do well, it is the Festival and street parade. These can be as spectacular as any Los Vegas stage show. One of the best known is the Masskara festival in Bacolod every last week in October.

The festival was born out of tragedy in 1980 when 700 lives were lost and an economic disaster hit at livelihoods. As a means to remind people to smile once again, Bacolod, the City of Smiles donned masks and the festival began.

Like all great events, you have to be there. To feel the overwhelming happiness and abandon of Filipino revelry put yourself in the thick of this stunning street theatre. The music can be exotic, erotic, primitive or inspiring and the visual precision of the dance troupes worth filming.

If you are with one of our guides for the festival he will make sure your experience covers more than street dance. There are parties to go to too if you know the right people.

GAY TOURIST - CEBU.

Carl runs the Cebu section of Philippines Gay Tourist. If you want a guide who is so easy to get along with; he's your man. He is also a masseur.  In his own words;

I love clubbing, dining, shopping, clothes, going out of town and beaches

on secluded islands, dancing, club music, house music, movies, I like to go

to islands with resorts that are very shady and peaceful. I am basicaly a

nice guy and very down to earth.

I'd love to travel overseas if given a chance. I've been to Singapore first

time, it was about 3 years ago. I mostly like small uncomplicated places, like the quite

and laid back towns and provinces.

You can get in touch with Carl at cebugaytourist@yahoo.com

FOOD, GLORIOUS UM...

When it comes to food, here is something out of the ordinary. On the one hand we have those sickening yellow arches and similar establishments popping up all over the Philippines and on the other hand we have the adventure of grub food. In between we have the influence of Europe, North America and Asian cuisine. It is difficult to say the Philippines has its own style but food is so important. You can look forward to familiar dishes tasting so much refreshingly different.

Let’s have a look at something on the edge,   http://youtu.be/_E7umTxxS9I  

 Pinangat na Isda is a dish wherein fish is stewed in a sour sauce. This is one of the traditional dishes in the Philippines. This is made with green mango. Sumptuous.

MEET OUR GAY GUIDES.

KIM is actually one of those guys who participates in pageants. Whether the body is the temple of the soul or just keeping really fit doesn’t matter. His body is a svelte, leopard like masterpiece without those body builder bulges. He will sit and enjoy a few beers with you and you wonder how he keeps that perfectly trim tummy. He just does.

He enjoys people and after graduating college has been working up front with them in various ways. He knows Bacolod as home and because of his involvement with the hotel trade and answering tourists’ questions. He is a bit on the serious side but that’s a product of being dependable. Don’t get me wrong; he smiles a lot and his company is very easy to get along with. This guy is well organized.

TELL YOUR GAY FRIENDS.

So you have already got your Philippines tickets booked and the hotel is just a taxi away but where do you go from there? You ask at the front desk of course and are given a brochure with photos of historic buildings and a beach and the inside of a restaurant that could be on your home towns’ next block.

Outside you grab a taxi and he takes you to a beach owned by a resort so you have to pay to get wet in the ocean. You also think it was strange that the taxi made four right hand turns on the way here. They insist on delivering the drinks to the beach because that costs a bit extra but they tell you it is all part of the service.

You read the snippets about the historic buildings and wonder why you didn’t look them up on the laptop. After reading you know why you didn’t. There really isn’t anything else to do so you lay there telling yourself this is “getting away from it all”.
WE are not like that. 

At any of the cities under our Philippines Gay Tourist banner you can have a personal guide who knows where to take you and how to avoid the rip-offs. How about watching a practice session of the local bare chested football team? It's not in the brochures. This is our home and we want you to come back.  Tell your friends. We have a lot to share.