By Annabel Consuelo
SAN JOSE De BUENAVISTA, Antique -- Former Department of
Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) secretary Gina Lopez expressed great
optimism that tourists will definitely come back after the Boracay cleanup and
rehabilitation.
“Boracay will be like Phoenix, it will rise from the ashes,” Lopez said
during a media interview here Friday.
Lopez, now the founder and chairman of the ILOVE (Investments in Loving
Organizations for Village Economies) Foundation, came here to launch her Quest
for LOVE Program.
Lopez said that Boracay's closure is just temporary, but much needed
with the given situation now. “We can’t continue killing the goose that lays
the golden egg,” Lopez said.
She said Boracay island brings many benefits to the people and to the
tourism stakeholders and thus need to be taken care of.
She added that after the six-month closure of Boracay starting on April
26, there would be many tourists and investors who would be lured again into
the island.
“
We can’t do business by killing the environment,” Lopez added. (PNA)(posted by Redline News PH)
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