{"id":56290,"date":"2018-10-28T14:01:09","date_gmt":"2018-10-28T11:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/novosti\/ostrov-borakai-snova-prinimaet-tyristov.html"},"modified":"2018-10-28T14:01:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-28T11:01:09","slug":"ostrov-borakai-snova-prinimaet-tyristov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/novosti\/ostrov-borakai-snova-prinimaet-tyristov","title":{"rendered":"Boracay Island is welcoming tourists again."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Philippine authorities reopened Boracay Island to tourists on October 26. Importantly, the island will now accommodate up to 6,000 tourists per day, up from the previous 19,000, CNN reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/b19ad6910a316beba849073e6d47a1e2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As a reminder, Philippine authorities closed the island to tourists for six months on April 26. <!--more-->The large influx of tourists has caused severe environmental damage. Consequently, President Rodrigo Duterte has decided to temporarily close the island to tourists. &quot;I will hold you accountable to the fullest extent of the law for your negligence, which has turned Boracay into a fishing pond and a sewer,&quot; Duterte said. &quot;Either you clean it up, or I will close it forever. The time will come when foreigners will no longer travel there,&quot; he explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For six months, waste removal work was carried out on the island, and sewer systems in hotels were upgraded. In addition, new rules and regulations for tourists were introduced.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Philippine Tourism Minister Berne Romulo-Puyat hopes that the resort, previously recognized as the best beach, will regain its title due to its transformation.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The first tourists have already arrived on the island, Izvestia TV reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trn-news.ru\/news\/83007\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trn-news.ru<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philippine authorities reopened Boracay Island to tourists on October 26. It&#039;s important to note that the island will now accept up to 6<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novosti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}