【速報！ボラカイ島再開の兆し！】再開予定日：10/26（金）より
今年の４月26日より閉鎖となった「ボラカイ島」ですが、現地よりうれしい知らせが届きました。先日、7月12日付で発信しました「【続報！ボラカイ島閉鎖について】リゾート地・ボラカイ島の今は・・・」の中でもお知らせしました通り、島内では急ピッチに工事が進められているとのことですが、状況が順調のようで、この調子だと10月26日（金）より、再開予定とのことで朗報が届きました。
※以下、環境大臣のシマツ氏のコメントより抜粋（英文となります）
→7月11日（水）付の発表声明となります。
Boracay to officially reopen on October 26 — Cimatu Published July 11, 2018 2:10pm
By ERWIN COLCOL, GMA News
Boracay Island will officially reopen to the general public on October 26, Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu said on Wednesday. Cimatu made the announcement only less than three months after the popular island resort was closed to the public for six months starting April 26 for rehabilitation. “I would like to say categorically that we will be opening Boracay on October 26,” Cimatu told members of the House Committee on Natural Resources during its meeting. “When we started the counting, it was from April 26. But [the rehabilitation] should be made within six months, [or until] October 26 or October 27. But nevertheless, we will open it on October 26,” he added. The Boracay Inter-Agency Task Force, she said, envisioned Boracay Island rehabilitated “as a sustainable tourism destination.” To make this happen, the task force focused on seven key result areas for rehabilitation. These include providing social safety nets through training, livelihood and employment assistance, ensuring the health and sanitation of Boracay Island, as well as decongesting it. Apart from these, the task force also worked on easing the traffic flow in the island, enforcing the rule of law, engaging the stakeholders and the public through an effective domestic and global communications strategy, and crafting and implementing a medium-term comprehensive ecosystem rehabilitation and recovery program. The House panel conducted the inquiry in response to the call of environmental groups to concerned government agencies and officials to protect the remaining forestlands in the Boracay Island which “have borne ill effects of unregulated development and untrammeled tourism activities.” — RSJ, GMA News
各リゾートホテルも順次予約受付を再開！
上記発表声明文を受け、島内のリゾートホテルにも徐々に動きが出てきました。島内だけで6つのリゾート展開をしている大型リゾートグループ「ヘナングループ（ヘナンリージェンシーリゾート＆スパ等）、全室スイートのお部屋をもつ「ディスカバリー・ショアーズ・ボラカイ・アイランド」、自然美豊かなデラックスホテル「シャングリ・ラ・ボラカイ リゾート＆スパ」など予約受付も開始しました。ようやく、明るい話題の兆しがでてきたリゾート・ボラカイ島！再開時は生まれ変わった環境に期待大です！
