Just about a month earlier, one of the first major hotels in Puerto Princesa City, The Legend Hotel, decided it could no longer sustain losses and closed its business, following what many other smaller tourism related establishments had done if only to cut their losses and take no further business risks.
In a letter addressed to Tugade obtained by Palawan News on Sunday, Mayor Lucilo Bayron said that apart from the threat of COVID-19, the opening of the city airport "will be pointless" because the local tourism sector that it serves is not yet prepared.
