{"id":187062,"date":"2018-10-26T05:50:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T09:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=187062"},"modified":"2018-10-26T05:50:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T09:50:57","slug":"govt-bats-sustain-gains-boracay-island-reopening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/10\/26\/govt-bats-sustain-gains-boracay-island-reopening\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov\u2019t bats to \u2018sustain gains\u2019 during Boracay island reopening"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_164953\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-164953\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DOT-chief-Bernadette-Romulo-Puyat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-164953 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DOT-chief-Bernadette-Romulo-Puyat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DOT-chief-Bernadette-Romulo-Puyat.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DOT-chief-Bernadette-Romulo-Puyat-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/DOT-chief-Bernadette-Romulo-Puyat-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-164953\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cThe past six months have been a difficult time for Aklan. The impact has been huge, but its now behind us,\u201d he said. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DepartmentOfTourism\/photos\/a.197422286951318.60358.197186436974903\/2191460857547441\/?type=3&amp;theater\">File Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DepartmentOfTourism\">Department of Tourism &#8211; Philippines\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>BORACAY<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 Government authorities and stakeholders on Friday committed to bolster sustainable tourism as one of the world\u2019s leading tourist destinations, Boracay Island, reopened its doors to the public on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reopening of Boracay is not just the culmination of our journey on sustainable tourism. Together, let us ensure that future generations, our children, our chlidren\u2019s children, will still say that it\u2019s more fun in the Philippines,\u201d Department of Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat said in a speech here during the formal reopening of Boracay.<\/p>\n<p>Puyat said the tourism department will be sustaining the gains made during the six-month island closure, adding that \u201cother countries were impressed with what we have done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Aklan Governor Florencio Miraflores, meanwhile, said \u201csacrifices had to be made\u201d during the shutdown, but they were all \u201cworth it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe past six months have been a difficult time for Aklan. The impact has been huge, but\u00a0its now behind us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Boracay Inter-agency Task Force has vowed to strengthen the implementation of environmental ordinances that will boost sustainable tourism in the island.<\/p>\n<p>The task force has given green light to some 157 accommodation establishments to accept visitors.<\/p>\n<p>Department of Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Roy Cimatu said the task force is continuously accepting applications for compliance of hotels and resorts that are not yet accredited.<\/p>\n<p>Among the highlights during the island\u2019s reopening program include the unveiling of a huge selfie wall, dubbed as the new \u201cBoracay icon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Members of the \u201cKaligkasan\u201d community multipliers group, which will augment government personnel in enforcing environmental ordinances in the island, also took their oath during the program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BORACAY\u00a0\u2014 Government authorities and stakeholders on Friday committed to bolster sustainable tourism as one of the world\u2019s leading tourist destinations, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":164953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-rom-dulfo","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}