BAGUIO CITY, Philippines — The Department of Tourism on Sunday began its distribution of P156.4 million worth of cash assistance to more than 31,000 displaced tourism workers and other affiliated sectors here in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR).
Tourism Secretary Berna Romulo-Puyat led the distribution of cash aid to an initial 6,131 displaced tourism workers in Baguio City, who will each get P5,000 each, for a total ofP30.6 million.
“Rest assured that the DOT is doing all that it can to bring back jobs and employment to Filipino tourism workers,” Puyat said in a press conference with Baguio Mayor Benjamin Magalong, also the country’s contact tracing czar, at the Ba…
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