Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, July 9) — Daily tourist arrivals on the island of Boracay dropped by 83%, a government official said Friday as he stressed the local tourism sector still struggles to recover.
“Nahihirapan pa rin,” Acting Malay Mayor Frolibar Bautista said when asked about Boracay’s tourism recovery.
[Translation: We’re still struggling.]
He said before the pandemic, the island had some 6,000 tourists arriving daily, but the number has since gone down to over 1,000 visitors a day.
Bautista also stressed fully-vaccinated tourists still need to present negative RT-PCR results.
The local leader said they hope to receive more vaccines from the national government to ramp up their inoculation of tourism workers.
To cover both frontliners and residents, the Aklan mayor said they need 40,000 doses of coronavirus shots.
