{"id":275175,"date":"2020-11-12T08:51:15","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T13:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=275175"},"modified":"2020-11-12T08:51:15","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T13:51:15","slug":"bantayan-island-airport-to-spur-tourism-in-cebus-north-corridor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/11\/12\/bantayan-island-airport-to-spur-tourism-in-cebus-north-corridor\/","title":{"rendered":"Bantayan Island Airport to spur tourism in Cebu’s north corridor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: Bantayan Island in Cebu (File photo: Big Dodzy\/Unsplash)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

CEBU CITY<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Cebu\u00a0Governor Gwendolyn Garcia said the commercial airport in Bantayan Island will stimulate the tourism industry in the northern corridor of the province.<\/p>\n

Garcia, who presided the Provincial Development Council (PDC) meeting on Wednesday at the Cebu Provincial Capitol, said the Bantayan Island Airport will receive a maiden flight of Cebu Pacific Air on Nov. 27.<\/p>\n

The 80-seater aircraft will carry members of the media, vloggers, and social media influencers who will be joining the \u201cmini Suroy-Suroy\u201d (mini tour) to the island on Nov. 27 to 29, she said.<\/p>\n

The mini tour will showcase the tourist destinations in the three towns of Bantayan Island as the provincial government is preparing for the “new normal” in tourism activities, she added.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the Bantayanons, Lawisnons (residents of Madridejos town), and Santafehanons, will surely be very very happy on that day,\u201d Garcia told the mayors who attended the PDC meeting.<\/p>\n

The airport in Bantayan can be reached through a 20 to 30-minute flight from the Mactan-Cebu International Airport (MCIA).<\/p>\n

Garcia, along with MCIA general manager Steve Dicdican, led a team in inspecting the Bantayan Island Airport\u2019s finishing works of the 1.2-kilometer runway extension project last Oct. 17.<\/p>\n

The new Bantayan airport terminal project, located in Barangay Okoy, Santa Fe town, can accommodate 60-seater commercial planes.<\/p>\n

Considered as the \u201cParadise of the North,\u201d Bantayan Island, particularly the town of Sta. Fe, is highly reliant on tourism.<\/p>\n

The island town of Sta. Fe was featured in the local movie \u201cI Found My Heart in Santa Fe,\u201d which\u00a0is top-billed by real-life couple Roxanne Barcelo and Will Devaughn.<\/p>\n

Sta. Fe was also cited last year by the Department of Tourism as the seventh most visited tourist site in the Philippines and the first in Cebu province.<\/p>\n

The governor said that reopening of the tourism industry is a priority as millions of Cebuanos whose income and livelihoods were lost due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic have been suffering since the start of the lockdown in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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