⌛ MOALBOAL bad news

ALL restaurants from little corner to last filling station will be knowcked down plus all bars to make way for huge japanese resort from ocean globe.
This is surely very bad news and the beginning of the end for rustic moalboal.
another paradise lost
I have writtne thr guy a letter to protest.
all can do the same
Mr Toshiomi Kiyonaga
4-11-6-802
Minamikoiwa edogawa -ku
Tokyo 133-0056
Japan

 

I'm not surprised at all
I'm surpsrised that you thought the tourism development in the Phils would be any different to thailand. I told you before to be careful what you wish for
as I KNEW this would be the result. Please would you all write to this guy to protest. I have sent a letter of complaint already
if you know the major or other influential people pleaase take this up with them as well.
Moalboal because it is rustic and not full of big resorts is why I like it.
It is my favourite place and i would be very upset if this happens.
there really will be nowhere left if this happens.
PG has already fallen along with Panglao island and Borocay.
What I would suggest Cebudiver is that you also stop plugging the area on websites

 

the key my friend is to keep things unpublisized and unpromoted.
with the small world we live in people will ALWAYS find and seek nice beach
areas. This is great as it onl;y then attracts the hardcore few. pulbisize it and the sheep then follow and oncer that happens, greed sets in and
its another paradise lost. it was pretty d*mn obvious that the phils needed no promotion but since you started to plug it on TT
I have seen a MARKED increase in tourism traffic
maybge this is just coincidence
but i really have a hard time trying to understand your motives behind that
if as you say you didn't like thailand for its overdevlopment or even PG or Pangloa, i would have thought apo. moalboal etc had the perfect balance.
it would be a great shame in having a hand in tipping that balance
i would have thought, but that is EXACTLY what you have done

 

yes quite right
the problem is when it goes form community based tourism
ie Apo and parts of Moalboal to areas that atttract mass tourism and the subsequent internationla investors
this moalboal situation is a perfect exmaple of that
right now that area emplys many locals who have business there from restuarants to bars. if this jap guy knocks it down then it will only be him,
a rich foreigner that gets richer and all the other locals lose their livelihoods
so how on earth can this be good?
sure some may get jobs at the new resort but not a lot and probably at far
lower wages than previously earned from succussful family run restaurants etc.
This is the ugly side if tourism where rich foreign investors
gain and locals lose