HOTELIERS are seeking permission to offer staycations soon to boost their revenues amid the continuing international travel restrictions on inbound tourists due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In a Viber message, Philippine Hotel Owners Association (PHOA) Executive Director Benito C. Bengzon Jr. told the BusinessMirror, “We are hoping that the authorities…
Published January 14, 2021, 6:07 PM
The Department of Tourism (DoT), in a resolution released today, has found the City Garden Grand Hotel (CGGH) in Makati City liable for the “offense of gross and evident bad faith in dealing with clients/fraudulent solicitation of business” after accommodating guests for leisure purposes despite being a quarantine facility.
CGGH is the accommodation establishment where Philippine Airlines flight attendant Christine Angelica Dacera was found lifeless in one of its rooms last Jan. 1.
The DoT said the hotel has made “false, deceptive, or misleading claims or statements for the purpose of soliciting business from clients under Section 13.2 (c) of DoT Memorandum Circular No. 2018-03.”
DOT revokes authority to operate of hotel in Dacera case By JOAHNA LEI CASILAO, GMA News
Published January 14, 2021 5:54pm The City Garden Grand Hotel (CGGH) in Makati, the hotel where flight attendant Christine Dacera was found dead, will no longer be allowed to operate after the Department of Tourism (DOT) revoked its certificate of authority to operate due to fraudulent solicitation of business. According to the DOT, the CGGH was found to “have misrepresented itself to the public as being allowed to accommodate guests for leisure or staycation purposes despite being a quarantine facility.” “The DOT… finds the CGGH in Makati City liable for the offense of gross and evident bad faith in dealing with clients/fraudulent solicitation of business or making any false, deceptive, or misleading claims or statements for the purpose of soliciting business from clients,” the DOT said in a statement.