Hotels and resorts on Boracay Island have been reeling from the cancellation of bookings of Taiwanese tourists amid the diplomatic row following the killing of a Taiwanese fisherman by Filipino coast guards, according to travel operators.
Police have arrested a resort cook for the alleged rape of a British tourist in Boracay recently.
It was a squall, a brief but violent sea storm, that caused the motorboat Kevin 2 to capsize off Boracay island Wednesday afternoon, causing the deaths of three Taiwanese tourists and hospitalization of six others, the Philippine Coast Guard said Thursday.
Three Taiwanese tourists, including a two-year-old girl, drowned on Wednesday afternoon when a motor boat carrying 30 tourists capsized near Boracay Island, Aklan, according to initial police reports.
A student and a tourist drowned while four other persons were rescued while swimming in rough waters in Boracay Wednesday morning, tourism officials and police said.
A group of business owners on Boracay Island welcomed the Supreme Court order to indefinitely stop the controversial reclamation project at the jump-off point to the renowned island pending resolution of the case.
Resorts and hotels on Boracay Island have been hit by booking cancellations by tourists from China amid the ongoing standoff over the Scarborough Shoal.
Stealing away to Boracay island for the summer may not be everyone’s cup of tea nowadays, with possibly thousands queuing to stretch out on its famous powdery white sands but tucked amongst the hotels brimming with tourists is a luxurious beach resort where one can truly experience Boracay in peace and quiet.
The Rotary Club of Manila has honored Henry O. Chusuey, Chairman of Boracay Regency Group (now called Henann Resorts Group), with this year’s Tourism Personality of the Year Award for Resort Category.
Philippine authorities have found and disarmed a small bomb at Kalibo International Airport, which serves the resort island of Boracay, one of the country’s main tourist hotspots, police said Wednesday.
Hundreds of residents of Boracay Island and the province of Aklan joined a rally here on Saturday to protest plans to put up casinos on the resort island.
Nine tourists on Boracay Island were hospitalized and two more were treated on Wednesday, in what was suspected to be a case of food poisoning, the municipal health office of Malay town in Aklan said.
