Island resorts like Boracay and Puerto Galera are among the visited places during long holiday weekends. Thousands of people from various places in the Philippines including international tourists visited these islands just to see and experience their beauty. Hopefully, the local Tourism department of these places will do their share to ensure the safety of their visiting public and not just ensuring the revenue they are going to collect. Hopefully they will ensure that the tourists visiting these places would be delighted and experience the Filipino hospitality and will love to keep coming back instead of having travel nightmare experiences.

Safety inspection must be thoroughly conducted in all amenities from the vessels that the tourists are using as a mode of transportation to the island. Overloading, safety equipments and also proper insurances if the passengers are given the right benefits or claims from the insurance rates they pay. Authorities must also ensure that these places are free from scammers and other lawless elements. They must provide information desk officers available 24/7 to attend to tourists’ needs. These should have proper information for their benefits not only for the benefits of resort owners and businessmen in the islands.

For me, safety and good service are more important than other things during travel to encourage tourists to keep coming back and not just to have first and last visit to these places.