Philippines to close Boracay resort to tourists for six months

[kaptainrob]

The Philippines has announced its best-known holiday island Boracay will be closed to tourists for six months over concerns that the once idyllic white-sand resort has become a "cesspool" tainted by dumped sewage.

Philippines to close Boracay resort to tourists for six months


Possible knee-jerk scaremongering from a heavily biased rag when the damage [to tourism] is already serious enough.

[Ian Forbes]

Philippines to close Boracay resort to tourists for six months


Possible knee-jerk scaremongering from a heavily biased rag when the damage [to tourism] is already serious enough.

I have a good friend who visits Boracay on a yearly basis for about 3 to 4 months during the Canadian winter. He is a commercial fisherman and it suits his life style perfectly. He said there is big, fancy new resort being built by some wealthy person who does not want competition by all the mom and pop, low end resorts that most tourists frequent. Kevin thinks there has been some big money change hands to allow the new resort builder to have access to the island, and the "excuse" is protection and clean up of the environment. Knowing how Asian politics works, I would not doubt Keven's idea.