IN the April 25 issue of the Manila Bulletin (Travel & Tourism), the province of Camarines Sur, headlined “New RP tourist magnet emerges,” was given a wanted boost in tourism. What of the four colored sceneries which should tantalize nature lovers to no mean pleasures, so they say, a picture speaks a thousand words.

        As had been pointed out, the Camsur Watersports Complex (CWC) is “the province’s current leading attraction.” This six hectare wonder can truly claim the sobriquet, the watersports mecca of Asia.

        Nowadays, it’ not uncommon to be lured by locals and foreigners wakeboarding, waterskiing, kneeboarding, wakeskating, which before the time of Camarines Sur Governor L-Ray Villafuerte were only seen in cinemas and in prints. There’s no substitute really for primary contact, better understanding, one can reckon.

        Albeit, a little surprise trickles when a paid advertisement for a candidate for the May polls on the same sports vein appears on television with no less than President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo indirectly endorsing an election aspirant for the CWCs establishment. Are the connotations of the business acumen of the governor being unraveled that it becomes definitely difficult for a commerce to measure itself?

        Seen as the incoming to be calendared growth is the bucolic and naturally endowed Caramoan town. The write-up states: “The Caramoan Peninsula is touted as the next prime tourist destination, with its perfect beaches, serene lakes, booming marine life, and deep and dazzling caves and coves.”

        As a matter of fact, the waters of Caramoan defies description. Its currents in Rungus and Garchitorena points during the last quarter of the year are a haven to thrill seeking adventurers so attuned to seek the limits of endurance and patience. You’d meet in them depths cathedral-like waves. Its homing constancy to beaches chisels hardened rocks to hand over the sea. It’s so amazing to behold for the brave of heart.

        But selling the almost insula for leisure or sport in either short or long terms requires a perspective of great care, which at the moment is absent. The Fuentebellas to connect Caramoan to the mainland tried to make an alternative mountain route to sea travel; the elder Villafuerte, coastal. These political divergencies have not to this day served tourism. And more support infrastructure needs are necessities as local and foreign tourists reach Caramoan. So that at this juncture, an aggressive blueprint of strategy involving local public and private agencies and groups are to be fully mobilized for the venture.

        To be blunt about the matter with no comparan unintended, political interests must not touched down than that of development to realize the Caramoan agenda of the provincial government. True investment. There is no other way.