MANILA - The Hotel Sales and Marketing Association (HSMA) is seeing 2022 as a "breakthrough" year for the hospitality sector, with the anticipated arrival of more international tourists in the coming months. "Quarantine has now passed, we have to move forward and we're getting there slowly, of course not as fast as we would like to, but we're getting there slowly," HSMA Board Chair Margie Munsayac said during the launch of the 8th Virtus Award in Paranaque City on Thursday. She said pent-up and lockdown-driven demand for travel among tourists particularly places resorts in a "better situation". "We are getting the resorts filled up, especially on weekends and special holidays. We see, especially for the summer months, we are getting our occupancy normally full for resorts and I believe for some city hotels because staycations are also on the rise," she said. "I think 2022 will really be our light at the end of the tunnel and 2023 wou
To stimulate and revive domestic tourism, the Hotel Sales and Marketing Association (HSMA) recently launched September Online Sale (SOS) Year 2, an online sale of vacation and food and beverage packages which will run until October 15. Eighty of the country’s top hotel and resort chains and brands are taking…