It’s the world-famous Philippine atoll that has been reopened after a six-month closure but party animals can forget about stepping foot on Boracay Island’s pristine white-sand beaches from now on.
“Let us treat the island as our home,” Tourism Secretary Berna Romulo-Puyat said in a message to tourists. “Keep it clean and pristine. Don’t drink alcohol or smoke in the beach, don’t litter.”
As part of the new rules, just 19,000 tourists are to be allowed on the island each day, with worker numbers also capped at 15,000, and visitors will be asked to sign an oath to follow the new rules around proper waste disposal and a ban on booze, smoking, bonfires and wild partying on the beach. Only a portion of Boracay’s hundreds of hotels, restaurants and souvenir shops have reopened after complying with the regulations, including connecting to authorised sewer pipes and maintaining a 30m distance from the ocean.
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