NEW HOTEL IN TOWN. Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat (4th from left) graces the opening of the Japanese luxury hotel, Hotel Okura, at the Resorts World complex in Newport City on Tuesday (April 19, 2022). With her are (from left) Chief Gaming Officer Hakan Dagtas, Pasay City Mayor's chief of staff Peter Eric Pardo, Resorts World Manila president and CEO Kingson Sian, Travellers International Hotel Group, Inc. chairman Kevin Tan, Embassy of Japan Deputy Chief of Mission and Minister Yasushi Yamamoto, Hotel Okura president Toshihiro Ogita, and Hotel Okura Manila general manager Jan William Marshall. (PNA photo) MANILA - Hotel Okura officially opened in Manila on Tuesday, signaling the gradual recovery of the country's hospitality industry from almost two years of pandemic-driven lockdowns. The Japanese luxury hotel, situated within the Resorts World complex in Newport City, soft-opened in December 2021 and is the first Okura Nikko Hotels property in the Philippines. "
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(File photo) MANILA - Hotels are seeing 2022 as a "good recovery" year after observing a rise in the confidence level to travel among Filipinos. "[E]ven if we continue to stay at alert level two, 2022 should really be a good recovery year, not quite the pre-pandemic days but definitely much much better than 2021," Philippine Hotel Owners Association, Inc. (PHOA) board of director and vice president for SM Hotels and Conventions Corporation Ma. Luisa Angeles said in a recent presser. Recovery to pre-pandemic levels, however, could still take about three to four years or at least until after global air traffic returns to 2019 levels, according to PHOA President Arthur Lopez. "[I]f the airlines will not fly, there would be no recovery and (there was a time) that IATA already said 2024 is only the start or the beginning. In other words, it has to peak for maybe one or two years," he said. "There will be a boom in travel because everybody wants to travel a
(Part 1) Despite the continuous increase in the COVID-19 infection rate and the possibility of future surges of even more virulent variants of the disease, we have to convince our leaders in both the public and private sectors to allow domestic tourism more leeway to recover.