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PayMaya Love: The Love that Pays My Advocacy for Supporting Local

Don’t be a stranger in your own city... much like how Baguio folks apparently shun away from its biggest festival, the Panagbenga (not to mention, long weekends)...



Attributed to various reasons, quite a degree of pessimism has been insinuated on Baguio City’s seeming suffocating situation. Deteriorating environment, worsening traffic, wavering peace and order, et al. All of which alienate people from the essence of Baguio’s good-natured environs. Most of which are unfortunately imputed to the booming tourism and the local government, corresponding with Baguio’s trade and commerce... By people, it’s from either side of the spectrum. Local folks generalize tourists and outsiders/traders as the unwanted visitors. Whereas among tourists, Baguio isn’t as welcoming as it was (or as they were)...

Come on Baguio peeps! It’s the Summer Capital of the Philippines. We can’t take pride how inviting our city is without sharing it. How can we lay claim on such general perception of our Baguio as a favorite go-to-place for a tourist destination while we become the inhospitable host ...like lovers living up to Baguio’s chilly weather traversing a cold path.

"Cold strawberry-flavored "dirty" ice cream anyone?"


Where is the love?

“Madness is what you demonstrate
And that's exactly how anger works and operates
Man, you gotta have love just to set it straight
Take control of your mind and meditate
Let your soul gravitate to the love...”

And “gravitate to the love” indeed... ‘PayMaya Love’ that is! Just when the profitability aspect is what businesses seem to care about as assumed, PayMaya addresses the need to elevate the game for small scale and local businesses alike while promoting tourism.

Introducing this new PayMaya cashless transaction revolution, PayMaya aims to attend to issues pertaining to the convenience of not having to uneasily carry a substantial amount of cash for all its worth. This works for both the payer and the payee. In the process, it helps promote mutual understanding on how give-and-take (business) relationship works.

Giving Manong here equal opportunity to level up...
Helps him as well lessen the weight of his load (with less coins that is...)


Quite timely, Baguio is under “love” related issues with, ironically, the anti-PDA (Public Display of Affection) law and the ordinance to declare Baguio as a “Honeymooner’s Haven” initiated within this ‘love month’ and the blooming season. Both pronouncements are generating mixed reactions much like the love-hate relationship of its citizens and those they’ve deemed to be the adversaries. The general populace seem to care less to understand with reason, apparently fed up with such incongruity... Consequently, we are becoming the opposite of Baguio, “no longer cold, it’s warm” ~ whereas, no warmth from us like we’re cold(hearted) that way... Slowly fading as well is Baguio’s laidback “good vibes feel”.

"Mamang Sorbetero" gets to show the "upside down DQ quality" of his strawberry ice cream...


Opportunely still, PayMaya is set on embarking on a nationwide coverage of this “cashless venture” by reintroducing it this Panagbenga. To rather manifest oneness with Baguio in #bloomingforward, PayMaya is planting seeds of love = PayMaya Love!

With PayMaya’s cashless transaction through QR code mobile payment system, other than the given advantages, it also serves to benefit Baguio with these expedient reckonings in restoring and preserving its envisioned allure:


  • "Hail to the Cab!"
As if taking a cab in Baguio isn't a welcoming experience among tourists...
If only they don't have to compete with the heavy traffic brought about by "unregulated" private vehicle plying the CBD...
and with PayMaya, may tourists rather hail a cab...


  • “Sosyal Media”
"Instagramable na pangpatibay pa ng relasyon, san ka pa?!"


  • Less paper trail...
Sans the tape receipt (TR), with less paper, you know what that means to the environment...

More restaurants are "complying"


  • Safety and Convenience

The security it provides among boat/bike rental operators not having to hand-carry/transport their day's collection late at night is PayMaya Love 




Now, we need the right people and names to take into consideration come May, for the necessary programs beneficial to Baguio and those that will be in agreement with suitable and correlative business ventures such as PayMaya’s... 


Click 👉🏼and you can up your business with a PayMaya QR Code and let's grow and move forward for and with Baguio... One love at a time

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