DILG backs takeover of erring resorts

Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Sun, 05 May 2019 21:35:38 +0000

MANILA, Philippines — Interior Secretary Eduardo Año backed on Sunday a recommendation for national agencies to take over tourist sites found violating environmental laws, citing in particular noncompliant resorts in El Nido, Palawan, which have been given until May 30 to abide by government regulations or face shutdown.

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How’s Duterte? Photo sent to DOT chief puts issue to bed

Credit to Author: ryanl| Date: Sat, 04 May 2019 21:13:20 +0000

PHOTOCOURTESY OF TOURISM SECRETARY BERNADETTE ROMULO-PUYAT

NADI, Fiji — A photograph that President Duterte sent via Viber to Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat on Saturday should quash widespread speculations about the state of his health.

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Boracay rehab all about following law

Credit to Author: cmiranda| Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 21:18:58 +0000

Boracay rehab all about following law

BORACAY ISLAND, Aklan, Philippines — The government is bent on sustaining the gains of the six-month environmental rehabilitation of Boracay as more tourists are returning to the resort island in Malay, Aklan province, according to Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat.

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From Duterte, a suggestion to make tourism ad more fun

Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2019 21:36:30 +0000

Apparently for President Duterte, it will be more fun if the three secretaries on top of the country’s big-ticket environment cleanups

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Who needs Boracay? Puyat says arrivals break record

Credit to Author: lalos| Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2019 23:27:11 +0000

Who needs Boracay? Puyat says arrivals break record

The Philippines set an all-time tourist arrival record last year with the visit of more than 7.1 million foreign tourists, mostly from Korea and China.

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Philippines breaks tourism record in 2018

Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 11:22:57 +0000

Philippines breaks tourism record in 2018

The Philippines welcomed a record 7.1 million tourists to its beaches and dive spots in 2018, despite its most famous resort Boracay being shut half the year.

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Boracay visitors limited to 6,000 a day

Boracay visitors limited to 6,000 a day

Planeloads of tourists can’t just descend on Boracay’s beaches when the rehabilitated island reopens on Oct. 26. Only 6,405 tourists will be allowed to enter the island and frolic in its waters and beaches every day, Malacañang said on Wednesday, adopting the recommendation of an interagency committee. The Boracay Inter-Agency Task Force had assessed that […]

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Duterte, macho Cabinet treat Puyat ‘very well’

Duterte, macho Cabinet treat Puyat ‘very well’

President Rodrigo Duterte is a hands-on workman who respects women and their opinions, at least in the eyes and ears of one of his alter egos in the government, Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat.

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