InternationalConferences Fill the Fal Philippine International Parking Expo


tional Parking Expo venue, part of the SM Mall of Asia, which claims to be the third-biggest shopping mall in the world, hosted both the conference and an associated exhibition.


T The Filipinos certainly offered a novel approach to running a


conference. The opening event had traditional dancers and the singing of the national anthem, a doxology (a hymn to you andme) calling down blessings on the assembled participants. On the sec- ond day, the delegates were treated to more traditional dance rou- tines, and at one point the showdid seemin danger of turning into a karaoke night. However, all in all, it was a good show. The keynote presentation was given by Bayani Fernando,


Chairman of theMetropolitanManila DevelopmentAuthority and a candidate in the upcoming Presidential Election. He talked about the role of parking in the context of the development ofManila. Although we provide the same basic service, the differences between working in the UK / U.S. and locally were highlighted by


Members of the Abu Dhabi Department of Transport (Front row) listen to presentations at theMiddle East Parking Symposium.


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Eduardo Fulgencio, a speaker from the local security commu- nity.He noted one of the constraints his industryworked under is the police insistence on limiting the calibre and type of weapons that his people could carry. For those of youwho have not been to the Philippines, just


about every store and door has an armed guard; indeed, even the local baker’s shop has a man behind the door with a shot- gun. (The cakes were good, but not that good.) For a person fromBritain,where no one has a gun, to see a gun at every turn is a bit of a culture shock. There does seemto be amuch less clear division between


the private and public sectors in the Philippines than elsewhere in the world, and even the government role seems unusual. For example, city of Makati in metro Manila has its own traffic code that sets out rules of the road and so on. It must be very confusing for a driver if each time they cross a boundary the rules of the road change. Erickberth Calupe fromAyala Land – theAyala family is


probably the biggest landowners inManila – described how the company was at the stage of evaluating the pros and cons of in-house versus outsourced operations. After the confer- ence, they looked at one of their own operations a bit more closely. U.S. Parking Consultant Dennis Cunning had given some pointers on how to spot where you may have a problem; using these,Ayala removed suspect staff fromone of its facili- ties.The result was dramatic:Average daily income went from about $40 to about $450 overnight. Not big numbers day by day, but it looks as if the security staff weremakingmore than $100,000 a year. The two-day Philippine parking expo and conference


closed with a sign of greater things to come, with key local people getting together to begin the process of establishing a Philippine National ParkingAssociation.


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HE FIRST-EVER PARKING CON- ference in the Philippines took place in late October in Manila. More than 100 delegates signed up for the ground- breaking event. The Philippine Interna-


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