The government is confident the Philippine tourism industry would bounce back from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, which robbed the sector of billions of pesos in potential revenues last year.
According to Trade Secretary Ramon Lopez, the severe restrictions imposed on mobility and travel, including lockdowns, in an effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus hit tourism especially hard.
While reports of new Covid-19 variants from the United Kingdom, South Africa and Brazil raise fears of fresh border closures around the world, he said the Philippines remained firm on reenergizing the sector on the back of the accelerating distribution of coronavirus vaccines.
“We expect that the vaccines being rolled out in the…