The Mount Data Hotel is a

hotel A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. Facilities provided inside a hotel room may range from a modest-quality mattress in a small room to large suites with bigger, higher-quality beds, a dresser, a re ...

Bauko Bauko, officially the Municipality of Bauko (; ; ; ; ; ) is a municipality in the province of Mountain Province, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 32,021 people. History Chico River Dam Project Bauko was one o ...

Mountain Province Mountain Province (; ; ; ; ; ) is a landlocked province of the Philippines in the Cordillera Administrative Region in Luzon. Its capital is Bontoc while Bauko is the largest municipality. Mountain Province was formerly referred to as Mountain ...

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, noted in Philippine History as the venue of the signing of the Mount Data peace accord which ended hostilities between the Philippine Government and the

Cordillera People's Liberation Army The Cordillera People's Liberation Army (CPLA) was a militant organization based in the Cordillera region in the Philippines founded by Conrado Balweg. Background In 1979, the Itneg Catholic priest Conrado Balweg decided to join the New Peo ...

- an event that was a major contributor to the establishment of the

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. The hotel was closed in 2005 and was only reopened in 2022, under the administration of the Philippines'

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History

Mt. Data Hotel was built by the

Philippine Tourism Authority The Tourism Infrastructure and Enterprise Zone Authority (TIEZA), formerly the Philippine Tourism Authority (), is an agency of the Philippine national government under the Department of Tourism responsible for implementing policies and progr ...

(PTA) during the administration of then President

Diosdado Macapagal Diosdado Pangan Macapagal Sr. (; September 28, 1910 – April 21, 1997) was a Filipino lawyer, poet and politician who served as the 9th President of the Philippines, serving from 1961 to 1965, and the 5th Vice President of the Philippines, V ...

in order to encourage tourism in the Mountain Province, as well as the central Cordillera region. The hotel became known as the venue of the signing of the Mount Data peace accord or '' sipat'' on September 13, 1986, which ended hostilities between the Philippine national government represented by then President

Corazon Aquino María Corazón "Cory" Sumulong Cojuangco-Aquino (; January 25, 1933 – August 1, 2009) was a Filipino politician who served as the 11th president of the Philippines and the first woman president in the country, from Presidency of Corazon ...

and the

led by

Conrado Balweg Conrado Balweg (December 29, 1942 – December 31, 1999) was a former Filipino Catholic priest and rebel who was the founder of the Cordillera People's Liberation Army, a militant group which advocated autonomy for the Cordillera region in th ...

. The peace deal led to the establishment of the

. The PTA closed the hotel in February 2005, but later transferred the management of the hotel to the Mountain Province government in 2006 and tasked the provincial government to renovate the hotel's facilities and find a suitable entity to manage the hotel in ten years. The Mountain Province operated the hotel for ten years but had to failed to fulfill provisions of its deal to renovate the hotel. Administration reverted to the

(TIEZA, which was formerly the PTA) in February 2016. A renovation was planned but the hotel was temporarily closed due to delays on the implementation of the renovation. TIEZA began renovation on the hotel in early 2020 and plans to reopen the hotel within the latter part of the same year.

Facilities

In 2017, Mt. Data Hotel reportedly has 22 rooms.

References

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