MANILA, Philippines Boracay enterprises are gearing up for the reopening of the island’s borders to tourists from the National Capital Region (NCR), as they look to recover some of the losses they sustained when arrivals dipped to pandemic lows during the summer period. Based on data from the Malay Tourism Office, just 1,777 visitors went to Boracay in May, when guests from Metro Manila could only go to the island by chartered flights. Broken.