Boracay’s new 19,000 per night visitor cap means many fewer guests will be permitted on the island during peak periods. The Philippines Department of Tourism says major holidays such as Labor Day saw as many as 50,000 nightly visitor arrivals to the island, which far exceeded its “carrying capacity.”<\/p>\n
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With the visitor reduction, Galaxy might direct its focus to Japan where the casino operator hopes to land one of the three forthcoming integrated resort licenses. Lui said their Japanese proposal will focus on non-gaming activities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
“We are really interested in participating,” he stated recently.\u00a0So is Las Vegas Sands, MGM Resorts, Caesars Entertainment, Wynn Resorts, Melco Resorts, Hard Rock, and a slew of others.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boracay Island has reopened to Filipino citizens after a six-month cleanup ordered by President Rodrigo Duterte. They’ll find a much different four-mile island than the one they left. Duterte ordered the popular vacation destination’s closure on April 4 after calling it a “cesspool” where its once famous turquoise waters “smelled of sh*t.” The temporary closure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":90602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18,61,13592],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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