Tourism chief Bernadette-Romulo Puyat
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During the stakeholders meeting hosted by Mabini Mayor Noel Luistro, Puyat encouraged the business sector specifically the dive establishment operators to strictly uphold health and safety protocols, and work together to improve the readiness of Anilao for dive tourism under the new normal.
The dive industry, as part of the tourism sector, also bore the brunt of the COVID-19 crisis.
“The Department is hard at work not only for the slow but sure reopening of our destinations but also on the persistent but guarded development of the dive tourism industry,” Puyat said in her opening remarks.