Artourista 5: The Ultimate Tourism, Arts, and Pop Culture Challenge

The UP Tourism Management Society, is an academic organization based in UP Diliman Asian Institute of Tourism. As an acad org, a quiz bee event is quite fitting. It recently organized Artourista 5: The Ultimate Tourism, Arts, and Pop Culture challenge! The quiz bee was open to all UP Diliman students of the semester who were up for the challenge and wanted to win P2,000 + 500 GCs (First place) and P1,000 + 500 GCs (second place).

Event Poster.

First 15 registered participants got free chicken shawarma from Meshwe! (Bawi na ang reg fee!) Everyone was served juice and unlimited biscuits ;). 10 teams pre-registered online (reg fee was P120/team) while 6 teams registered as walk-in (P150/team). Because of the number of teams that participated, we wanted to have more winners so we opened up a third place winning slot who got to win P300 worth of GCs from A Taste of Heaven! All players also received discount coupons from Cha Dao Tea Place.

Participants with their shawarma, biscuits, and orange juice.

We had a bring-me game during the break and the winner won a P100 GC from A Taste of Heaven. Team AIT (one man team) won!

Enjoy your milkshake!!

Answer: Three!

The questions were about, music, film, tourism destinations, and other random stuff! Who broke the internet?Easy Round.

 

Finally! By quarter to 8pm The winners were announced after tallying the points. I was surprised that all winners were AIT students (except for the mini game winner). Congratulations to:

Team: Bactol Returns! First placers. They also joined last year. :)

Team: Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Second placers.

Team: Stag Annex (third placers), team Mai-team (lol), Emcee Kyel, UP TMS Chief Executive Marga Febrero, and Artourista Head Lara Contreras.

Artourista team w/o Donita, Jas, and Noreen.

I was in charge of finance and marketing for this event and at the beginning I didn't think I could procure sponsors! Contacting  and meeting up with them was nerve-wracking but fulfilling. It was the most stressful part of organizing Artourista 5 but it all went well anyway. I'm so grateful to the sponsors and participants who made the event successful! Also, the ever reliable Artourista team was amazing! UP TMS members were super supportive by helping out during the event. (Tenks guys!) I learned to just not stress out too much because you will eventually accomplish things or get there if you do your best. :) Watch out for next year's Artourista 6!!

More photos here!

[Inna Paredes is a BS Tourism student at the University of the Philippines Asian Institute of Tourism who's favorite past time is watching Youtube beauty and fashion guru videos. When she isn't buried in books, she's out discovering food places with her friends and family. This girl is always, ALWAYS ready for dessert and derives great pleasure from eating gelato and dark chocolate.]