(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