Baguio City is bracing for “hundreds of thousands” of visitors in February when the crowd-drawing Panagbenga restages its street dancing and floral float parades next month following the easing of health and travel restrictions due to the pandemic.
Speaking at a news briefing, Magalong stressed that traffic routing schemes have been prepared and long-term mass transport projects have already been set in motion.
“Our priority now is to recover,” he said, noting the local economy suffered from two years of quarantines when leisure travel was prohibited.Magalong said arrival figures for last year had yet to be validated, but local officials believed the volume of travelers in 2022 had surpassed the 1.5 million visitors recorded in 2019.The 2019 report did not include all booking records of many hotels, so Baguio could have hosted as many as 3 million, he said.
Magalong urged the city council to pass an ordinance requiring all hotels, inns and vacation houses to register booking details at the Baguio Visita platform to gather accurate tourism data. Visita used to screen and approve guests entering Baguio during the early part of the pandemic, but has since been converted into a travel app run by the Baguio Tourism Council.—VINCENT CABREZA
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