ENCHANTED KINGDOM TIES UP WITH SUPER FERRY FOR MAGICAL LEARNING

Apprentice Students to Sail Away on a Fun and Educational Trip to Country’s Premier Theme Park


Ava Engel, SuperFerry’s Executive Vice President & CEO, Andrew Deyto, SuperFerry’s AVP for Sales & Marketing seal the deal by shaking hands with EK’s Eldar the Wizard. Mario O. Mamon, EK’s President and Chairman (extreme left) and Cynthia R. Mamon, Ph.D., EK’s VP for SMILE (Sales, Marketing, Imagineering, Leisure and Entertainment) (extreme right) smile on with approval.

Enchanted Kingdom (EK), the country’s premier theme park with world-class facilities, recently entered into a memorandum of agreement with SuperFerry, the low cost provider of sea travel in the Philippines.

EK will provide a Magical Sail-Away Leisure and Learning Program to HRM and Tourism students from Visayas and Mindanao who are also undergoing their apprenticeship with SuperFerry. In-park workshops on service magic, guest relations management, food services and an overview of park operations will be offered when they visit the Park. The “syllabus” also includes ITEX’s (International Travel Exchange, Inc.) “Pasyal Pinoy”, a tour package which includes an EK Day Pass and a round trip point-to-point shuttle service from Manila North Harbor to EK.

“We are happy to partner with SuperFerry and look forward to teaching their apprentices the first-rate service EK is known for,” said Cynthia R. Mamon, Ph.D., EK’s VP for SMILE (Sales, Marketing, Imagineering, Leisure and Entertainment). “I believe that the knowledge they will acquire from EK will be very useful once they actually start working for the service and tourism industry,” she further added.

“The strategic partnership with EK will expand the students’ horizon in more ways than one. Not only will we provide them the opportunity to learn about ship management, but also the chance to learn first-hand about theme park operations through Enchanted Kingdom,” enthused Ava Engel, SuperFerry’s Executive Vice President and CEO.

Incidentally, EK also renewed its deal with SuperFerry to sponsor the “SuperFerry Biyaheng Bayan Caravan Tour”, now entering its third year. With “Piyestang Pamilya” as its banner theme, the Caravan will visit customers in public markets and plazas in the VisMin area and hold pocket events complete with games and prizes.

Under the partnership, SuperFerry passengers can buy EK tickets bundled with SuperFerry rates providing them a seamless travel from VisMin to EK via ITEX’s “Pasyal Pinoy”. SuperFerry passengers and apprentices on board will no longer worry about their travel and will surely have a magical sail away through EK's travel packages.

Come to Enchanted Kingdom where the magic stays with you! We are open Mondays to Fridays from 2PM to 9PM and Saturdays and Sundays from 11AM to 9PM with Fireworks Display at 8PM until June 7.

For more information you may visit enchantedkingdom.com.ph or call 830-2111 to 16 or 843-6074 to 76. Enchanted Kingdom is located at Santa Rosa, Laguna with sales office at the Biltmore Condominium, 102 Aguirre St. Legaspi Village, Makati City.

For more information, on SuperFerry, you may call their hotline at 528-7000 or visit their website at superferry.com.ph.

MyGame brings TwelveSky 2 to the Philippines

TwelveSky 2 to add to the roster of MyGame’s portfolio

(Manila, Philippines) – Top local online game publisher MyGame is releasing another massive multiplayer online game (MMORPG), TwelveSky 2, to add to its current game roster consisting of the #1 online game Special Force and MMORPG Fiesta Online.

TwelveSky 2 is a martial arts fantasy game developed by Korean game company ALT1, formerly Gigassoft. The game is set in ancient China where three warring Clans fight an age-old battle for their brothers and at the same time deal with the re-emergence of a new faction. The game took after its predecessor, TwelveSky, which was released on Q4 of 2007 in Korea, US, and Europe, where it had a good following.

MyGame is set to release TwelveSky 2 in closed beta phase in the second half of this year. The closed beta and open beta phases will take about one and a half months before the game goes commercial. Aside from the Philippines, TwelveSky 2 has been released globally including US and Europe which are now in open beta phase.

TwelveSky 2 will be targeted to a wider Filipino audience from young adults to adults whose age ranges from 16 onwards.

“We are very bullish on bringing this game to the Philippines since Filipino gamers are very keen on player vs. player (PvP) games, which in TwelveSky 2 can be enjoyed even in the early stages of the game,” said Jon Roque, TwelveSky 2 product manager. The game is very well thought of and boasts of its PvP features.

According to Anton Ojeda, MicroGaming marketing director, compared with other online games available in the market that offer PvP as end-game content, Twelvesky2 provides this function feature to gamers at the start of the game, which can progress from simple fights to higher stages of fighting such as large-scale clan wars. This allows both casual and hardcore gamers to fully experience the game.

Moreover, the game rewards players with experience points and in-game money in PvP rather than the gamer not earning points & money whenever he engages in it. This PVP reward feature is not present in other online games. “Aside from PvP, gamers can also go into player vs. environment (PvE) type of play and still contribute to the clan he belongs to,” added Roque.

Other major improvements from its TwelveSky predecessor are evident in the graphics and the new race added to the game play. Gamers can pick from the three clans: imperial dragon, royal snake, fierce tiger, and later, the ancient sky, once they get to higher levels.

The game will be offered as Free2Play but gamers can avail of the company’s e-Coins system offered as top-up to get credit and buy premium in-game items. During its testing phases, MyGame will be giving away free premium in-game items.