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Boracay goes off-limit – A major blow to tourism

Monday, April 23, 2018

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Boracay goesFrom coming April 26th, world famous Boracay will be unavailable for six months to the visitors to start a massive cleanup and rehabilitation program. It is aimed to fix an out of order sewage system and get rid of hundreds of illegal structures that exotic destination an environmental disaster.

 
The National Economic and Development Authority calculated that the six months of Boracay closing would have negligible impact on the whole economy.

 
Of course, that’s the bigger picture. Nevertheless, zooming in, the closure is not without cost.

 
For example, suddenly 35,000 workers will be jobless. The resort island organizes almost 1,800 businesses, mostly hotels and resorts. All of them will cease operations. The government sees good losses of P18-20 billion, if Boracay is shut down for six months.

 
Around 2 million visitors in 2017 visited Boracay. In the first quarter of this new year, it attracted more than half a million tourists, with locals accounting for 30 percent or 164,911 visitors and international travelers totaling 376,171 visitors, up 32 percent from a year ago.

 
Chinese and Korean visitors topped the chart in terms of foreign arrivals for the first three months of 2018, accounting for three-fourths of the total.

 
Jose Clemente III, president of the Tourism Congress of the Philippines, calculated that almost 700,000 bookings would be canceled from May to October.

 
Almost 170,000 bookings would be gone for May alone. Per the estimate of Clemente’s group, revenues in terms of tourism of about P30 billion would be lost in the process.

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