MANDAUE CITY, Cebu – Learning from the experience of Panglao town, localities in Bohol province are told the importance of having regulations being set in place before they should start to
Also, there would be a need for businesses to establish an advance reservation system to make sure that they would not exceed the authorized carrying capacity and for government to collect environmental users fee, said Dominic Butalid, event consultant for BHOLDEX: 1st Bohol Loop Dive Expo 2023.
During the first half of 2022, the local government of Panglao earned at least P14 million in environmental users fee from the five dive sites found in Balicasag Island.Pre-pandemic, revenues would normally reach around P40 million per year, Butalid said.“Naguba ang Panglao because everybody went to Panglao as many as 500 divers a day. Naabuso ang corals, na abuso ang marine biodiversity,” he said.
Butalid said these localities would be made part of the BHOLDEX Loop Dive Expo that had been scheduled in April 2023 provided that they would comply with the requirements, especially on the need for them to pass an ordinance that would regulate tourism activities in their localities.
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