Hotels, restaurants in Bacolod ready to accept tourists

FRANK Carbon, Executive Director of the Metro Bacolod Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MBCCI) said several hotels and restaurants in Bacolod City have expressed their readiness to accept tourists.

This as the number of Covid-19 cases in the city continues to drop drastically and that 19 barangays have been declared Covid-19 free.

Resorts, and restaurants in the city have already complied with the protocols set by the National Inter-agency Task Force in order to maintain the minimum health protocols in their respective commercial establishments.

Carbon said tourists are still having a hard time in visiting Bacolod City due to the lack of commercial trips for fast craft, and roll-on/rolloff vessels due to some health protocols.

Despite the noted setbacks, Carbon has expressed confidence that with the city potentially being downgraded to the less strict modified general community quarantine next month, commercial trips would return and the tourists will start to trickle again in to the city. Earlier, Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) Negros Occidental chief, Lt. Commander

Jansen Benjamin, said there are no more travel restrictions for residents of Iloilo City who want to travel to Bacolod City and vice versa.

However, residents of both cities are required to register with the Bactrac system when traveling in between the two cities.

The Iloilo province continues to impose stricter rules treating those arriving like locally stranded ibdividuals, Carbon also revealed.

The shipping industry has been asking the Regional Inter-agency Tasl Force for a uniform health prorocols imposed by the LGUS all over Western Visayas for exonomic recovery.*