As the recent spread of the novel corona virus a.k.a COVID-19 /ncov, the people are scared to travel around which caused a huge impact in tourism making number of tourists to lessen.
Now foreign-branded hotels were urged to offer lower price rates to local travelers. In order to increase possibilities of locals to get attract to travel because of the temporary travel ban in China and it’s special administrative regions, Hong Kong and Macau.
According to 2019 tourist records, China is the second largest source of market of foreign arrivals with a total of 1.6 million Chinese arrivals from January to November 2019.
Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat acknowledge earlier that foreign arrivals are expected to drop with the implementation of the temporary travel ban, but insisted that safety is the utmost priority.
Hotel and Sales Marketing Association (HSMA) president Christine Ibarreta said that hotels currently seeing a 20%-40% cancellation rate in bookings. “Thus, we push for domestic travel in cooperation with industry players like airlines.”
Sources: The Philippines Star
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