This as about 80 percent of the accommodation establishments here may continue to temporarily shut down operations because they view the leisure travel industry as one that may not get back on its feet yet soon.
Carlo Anton Suarez, president of the Hotel, Resort and Restaurant Association of Cebu , Inc., told the Cebu Provincial Board this Monday, June 8, 2020, that it would still be difficult to foresee the industry getting back on its feet soon without a vaccine against the coronavirus disease in the picture yet.
Suarez, along with the leaders of the Cebu and Mandaue chambers of commerce, were asked to attend the session to talk about the blows that the businesses experienced from the effects of COVID-19. For the past months under community quarantine, some hotels have continued to operate as they catered to repatriated overseas Filipino workers , billeted frontliners, and workers of exempted establishments, and locally stranded individuals.But with still no traveler or business clients, which comprised the majority of their market, Suarez said their industry had continued to bleed and temporarily shutting down operations might be the only way to stop the “bleeding.
Suarez also told the PB that it might take up to two years before the industry could fully recover and go back to its economic state before the pandemic./dbsThe comments uploaded on this site do not necessarily represent or reflect the views of management and owner of Cebudailynews. We reserve the right to exclude comments that we deem to be inconsistent with our editorial standards.